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  • Ni Wayan Marsha Satyarini

    • Faculty of Hotel & Tourism Management Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), Malaysia
    • Malaysia

  • Arni Abdul Gani

    • Faculty of Hotel & Tourism Management Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), Malaysia
    • Malaysia

Abstract

This research presented in this literature review aims to examine tourist behavior towards the environment. The methodology employed is a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) with PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) protocol, which includes 62 literature reviews following the preferred reporting items from The Watase Uake Research Collaboration Tools. Sources for the literature review were retrieved from several publications, including Elsevier, MDPI, Wiley, Science Direct, Springer, Sage, and Taylor & Francis. Four major aspects are the subject of this bibliometric analysis: 1) The distribution of articles on each year; 2) The number of articles that are published in each publication; 3) The distribution of articles according to the research methodologies that were utilized; and 4) The frequency of keywords that used, with a particular emphasis on those that are use the most often and those that are use less often. All the articles are categorized into various topics based on their respective categories. The themes are categorized into 1) Tourist Environmental Behavior, 2) Environmental Education and Knowledge, 3) Social and Personal Norms, 4) Others.

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Satyarini, N. W. M., & Abdul Gani, A. (2025). Tourist Behavior Towards the Environment: Systematic Literature Review. Information Management and Business Review, 17(3(I), 543-550. https://doi.org/10.22610/imbr.v17i3(I).4499

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2025-09-13

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