Human Capital in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry: A bibliometric approach

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Main Author: Durão, Marília
Publication Date: 2025
Other Authors: Veríssimo, Medéia, Quintela, Joana, Marques, Jorge
Language: eng
Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
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Summary: Human capital is a prolific research topic in tourism and hospitality, given its decisive role in this industry’s competitiveness, sustainable growth and development. This chapter contributes to the current theoretical understanding of human capital in the tourism and hospitality field through thematic knowledge mapping. This study adopts a bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer software to examine 451 studies published from 2008 to 2023, retrieved from the Scopus database. Emerging themes, leading authors and academic institutions were mapped using co-citation and keyword co-occurrence analyses. Five clusters were identified within the human capital research landscape, including business outcomes, economic growth, tourism development, models of human capital development and technology. The results show that human capital research in hospitality and tourism has gained momentum in recent years and is expanding.
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title Human Capital in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry: A bibliometric approach
spellingShingle Human Capital in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry: A bibliometric approach
Durão, Marília
Human Capital
Tourism
Hospitality
Ciências Sociais - Outras Ciências Sociais
title_short Human Capital in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry: A bibliometric approach
title_full Human Capital in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry: A bibliometric approach
title_fullStr Human Capital in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry: A bibliometric approach
title_full_unstemmed Human Capital in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry: A bibliometric approach
title_sort Human Capital in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry: A bibliometric approach
author Durão, Marília
author_facet Durão, Marília
Veríssimo, Medéia
Quintela, Joana
Marques, Jorge
author_role author
author2 Veríssimo, Medéia
Quintela, Joana
Marques, Jorge
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Durão, Marília
Veríssimo, Medéia
Quintela, Joana
Marques, Jorge
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Human Capital
Tourism
Hospitality
Ciências Sociais - Outras Ciências Sociais
topic Human Capital
Tourism
Hospitality
Ciências Sociais - Outras Ciências Sociais
description Human capital is a prolific research topic in tourism and hospitality, given its decisive role in this industry’s competitiveness, sustainable growth and development. This chapter contributes to the current theoretical understanding of human capital in the tourism and hospitality field through thematic knowledge mapping. This study adopts a bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer software to examine 451 studies published from 2008 to 2023, retrieved from the Scopus database. Emerging themes, leading authors and academic institutions were mapped using co-citation and keyword co-occurrence analyses. Five clusters were identified within the human capital research landscape, including business outcomes, economic growth, tourism development, models of human capital development and technology. The results show that human capital research in hospitality and tourism has gained momentum in recent years and is expanding.
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Durão, M., Veríssimo, M., Quintela, J. A., & Marques, J. (2025). Human Capital in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry: A bibliometric approach. In J. Marques, J. A. Quintela, M. Durão, M. Veríssimo (Eds.), Building Human Capital in Tourism and Hospitality: Perspectives from theory and practice, (pp. 3-21). Cabi. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781800624979.0001. Repositório Institucional UPT. https://hdl.handle.net/11328/6307
https://hdl.handle.net/11328/6307
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