Immigration As A Determining Factor In The Hotel Occupancy Rate: A Scientometric Approach

Abstract

The hotel and tourism industry has been driven in recent times by the round-trip migratory movements of people globally, due to the fact that migrants return to their communities of origin to visit family and friends whenever they can. possible, or those families and friends travel to visit them wherever they are. These movements in both directions exert influence on this sector and could have a significant relationship in the increase or decrease in the hotel occupancy rate. On this topic, for the purposes of this research, a bibliometric study was applied through the Scopus database from the years 2010 to 2024. The information processing was carried out with the Biblioshiny application of the Bibliometrix package, which belongs to the software statistical RStudio. The results found include 997 research papers, of which approximately 76% were articles. The year with the most research production was 2022; The most prolific countries were the USA, the United Kingdom and Australia, while the journals Tourism management, Annals of tourism research and Tourism geographies, with 19, 16 and 16 H index respectively, were the most relevant. The author with the highest H index was Moufakkir O. and the co-occurrence analysis showed that the most relevant words were tourism and migration.