Regional Mountain Conference

Mountain regions are highly vulnerable to crises, disasters, and risks due to their geographical and environmental characteristics. Natural hazards such as landslides, earthquakes, avalanches, volcanic eruptions, floods, and climate-related events frequently affect mountain tourism destinations and pose challenges to tourism sustainability. As mountain tourism continues to expand globally, research related to crisis management and resilience in mountain destinations has received increasing scholarly attention. However, the existing tourism literature on mountain-related crises, disasters, risks, and hazards remains fragmented, with studies addressing diverse themes and perspectives and limited synthesis of the overall development and thematic structure of the field. Therefore, this study aims to: 1) review the development and major research themes of studies on mountain-related crises, disasters, risks, and hazards; 2) examine how these issues are discussed in tourism research; and 3) identify research gaps and future research directions.

A total of 140 tourism-related articles indexed in Web of Science and Scopus were reviewed. This study employs a systematic literature review approach combining bibliometric and thematic analyses. Bibliometric analysis was conducted to map publication trends, keyword co-occurrence, and thematic evolution, while thematic analysis was used to examine dominant discussions and identify research gaps.

The findings show recent studies increasingly emphasize environmental vulnerability and adaptation in mountain tourism contexts. However, governance, stakeholder coordination, and leadership dimensions remain relatively underexplored. This study contributes to mountain tourism crisis research by providing a comprehensive overview of the field and identifying future research directions related to governance, resilience, and crisis management in mountain tourism destinations.