Bibliometric Analysis of Articles on Tourism and Disability Published in TR Index Journals

Abstract

As a disadvantaged group, people with disabilities are affected by almost all activities of the societies they live in. It is known that they do not have the same opportunities as people without disabilities to access services such as maintaining their daily lives in society, meeting their educational and health needs. The issue that all humanity should know and remember is that everyone is a potential disabled person. UNESCO Sustainable Development Commission has set many targets for people with disabilities until 2030. In this direction, it is a known fact that the importance and role of tourism activities in human life is increasing day by day. Scientific fields related to tourism phenomenon, especially disability, attract the attention of academicians and all researchers. Especially in recent years, there has been an increase in the number of publications in various scientific fields related to the concepts of tourism and disability. Analysing the scientific research conducted in the field of tourism and disability within the framework of different standards is a guide for scientists conducting different scientific studies in this field. In line with this goal, the aim of this study is to present a bibliometric analysis of scientific articles on disability and tourism between 2005-2023 in journals indexed in TR Index. For this purpose, 56 articles were found in the TR Index database with the words disability and tourism in the subject content, keywords, or title. In order to reveal the evolution of the articles published in the field of disability and tourism over time, 56 articles included in our research were bibliographically analysed within the framework of 10 different criteria listed as the name of the journal, scientific fields of the articles, publication years, research topics, publication languages, types, countries and cities where the research was conducted, types of research methods, keywords used in the articles and the frequency of these keywords. As a result, it is noteworthy that the number of studies on tourism and disability published in the TR Index has increased rapidly over the last 5 years and that most of the articles are published in the social sciences, especially in tourism journals. In addition, some of the findings are that most of the articles included in the study were prepared as research articles, qualitative research methods were often preferred, and almost all the studies were written in Turkish.