Evaluation of Studies on Cheese Tourism in Turkey and International Literature With Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

This chapter was prepared for the purpose of in-depth examination and bibliometric analysis of studies literature on cheese tourism in Turkey and the world. The data used in these studies were obtained by scanning methods. Theses prepared on cheese tourism in Turkey were accessed from Thesis Center database of Council of Higher Education articles were accessed from ULAKBİM TR Index database. From relevant databases, Ph. D. Dissertation, 10 master's theses and 1 final report and 13 articles on cheese tourism were accessed. Published international studies on cheese tourism were accessed from the Scopus database. 95 studies were obtained from the Scopus database and were analyzed in depth. chapter is considered important in terms of current information it provides as a result of compiling and in-depth analysis of studies on cheese tourism. The results of study prove studies on cheese tourism, which examined with different effects in international literature since the early 1980s, especially those associated with sustainable tourism, have not been sufficiently emphasized in Turkey and there are important gaps on the subject.