Culture, heritage looting, and tourism: A text mining review approach

Sandra Maria Correia Loureiro; Amr Al-Ansi; Hyungseo Bobby Ryu; Antonio Ariza-Montes; Heesup Han

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.944250

Culture, heritage looting, and tourism: A text mining review approach

Front Psychol. 2022 Aug 8:13:944250. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.944250. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Sandra Maria Correia Loureiro¹, Amr Al-Ansi², Hyungseo Bobby Ryu³, Antonio Ariza-Montes⁴, Heesup Han⁵

Affiliations

¹ ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and Business Research Unit, Lisbon, Portugal.
² Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macao SAR, China.
³ Food Franchise Department, College of Health Sciences, Kyungnam University, Changwon-si, South Korea.
⁴ Social Matters Research Group, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, Córdoba, Spain.
⁵ College of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea.

Abstract

Tourism scholars have been devoted to exploring the significance of cultural heritage in generating economic, environmental, and social values. However, limited efforts were found to verify potential threats that demolish these values such as looting issue in the global heritage tourism industry. Therefore, this study has reviewed extant publications to demonstrate the potential emerged textual clusters discussed by previous studies. It also summarized the network distribution of articles journals and authors' affiliations to capture the mobility and diversity with a focus on the business and tourism management field. Hence, the core clusters discovered were related to heritage destruction, public access, world heritage, human rights, cultural heritage preservation, and protection of cultural heritage in the event. The results have established theoretical insights and research agendas for future tourism studies, while it determined critical drawbacks in employing technology tools including virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence for cultural heritage preservation/protection.

Keywords: cultural heritage looting; cultural heritage preservation; heritage destruction; human rights; protection of cultural property; public access.