Title: Sustainable tourism education: current status and future agenda

Authors: Dilip Kumar; Abhinav Kumar Shandilya; Jyothi Mallya

Addresses: Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, 576104, India ' Department of Hotel Management and Catering Technology, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, 835215, India ' Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, 576104, India

Abstract: To systematically review the sustainable tourism education literature, this study adopts an integrative review approach, a combination of bibliometric and systematic review. A total of 62 documents retrieved from the Scopus database were used in the analysis. The study identifies sustainable tourism education (STE) literature's most influential research constituents, such as journals, authors, and papers. The study also identifies essential clusters of STE literature using keyword cooccurrence and bibliographic coupling analysis. The findings suggest that the STE papers' main contribution evolved after the sustainable development goal's (SDG) formulation and Australia emerged as the primary contributor. Eco-educational tourism, pedagogy, resilience, integration, synergy, and harmony emerged as the major themes of STE literature. The findings of this study are helpful for future researchers, academicians, and educational policymakers in the STE domain.

Keywords: STE; sustainable tourism education; pedagogy; curriculum; SDGs; sustainable development goals; resilience.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTP.2025.146002

International Journal of Tourism Policy, 2025 Vol.15 No.2, pp.170 - 183

Received: 21 Mar 2024
Accepted: 24 Jun 2024
Published online: 01 May 2025 *

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