WILDLIFE TOURISM: A SYNTHESIS OF PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE RESEARCH AGENDA

Wildlife tourism (WT) is an emerging sector of tourism, majorly meant to view and/or encounter wildlife in the wild, captive, and semi-captive settings. Because new economies, there increased demand for destinations both, developing developed nations. However, a comprehensive study lacking WT. In this context, present seeks bring together discuss key findings on WT from literature propose approaches research using co-citation, co-authorship, co-occurrence analyses. Further, also considers conducted so far like attitudes, bird-watching, conservation, economics, hunting, mammals, management, marine monitoring, negative impacts, positive captive wildlife, guidelines. A data set created that includes authors, article titles, citations, countries, institutions, publication years sources, keywords, abstracts by collecting bibliographies Scopus Web Science (WoS) indexed journals with keywords search “Wild Life, Jungle Tourism.” The collected 1,519 used 1,259 published articles 1990 2020, analyzed employing VOS viewer software, which has enabled us understand relationship structure literature.