A systematic review of local residents’ involvement in tourism development

Abstract

Fostering local community engagement is now a crucial element in ensuring the sustainable viability of the tourism sector. As a result, both domestic and international specialists are growing more interested in the challenges of local community participation in tourism development. However, there is no commonly agreed definition of community involvement, and there are numerous approaches to assessing and quantifying local community participation in tourism development. Through a systematic inquiry and extensive analytical involvement of local people in the development of sustainable tourism in Vietnam, the author gives key notions on local residents' engagement in tourism development that serve as the framework for real participation research. To ensure impartiality and science in the text this study used bibliometric and content analysis methodologies, as well as VOSviewer software, to identify key research aspects among 2,100 papers from two sources of data: Web of Science and Scopus and suggest potential research directions.