Bibliometric analysis of the relation between Creative Tourism and Creative Cities publications between 2002 and 2022 in the SCOPUS database

Abstract

Creative Tourism is a recent tourist segment, having its definition emerged for the first time in 2000. This was the premise that gave rise to the first objective: to understand and analyze the evolution of Creative Tourism publications in the last 22 years. It was noticed that the term was not always used correctly. Therefore, we decided to evaluate which were related to Creative Tourism and which did not fit the theme. Furthermore, with the evolution of the term and the evolution of UNESCO Creative Cities, we also tried to understand whether there is a connection between Creative Tourism publications and those on the Creative City, that is, whether Creative Tourism also develops in UNESCO Creative Cities.