Research trends on food safety and sanitation in hospitality and tourism. (2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Okumus, Bendegul; Ma, Forest
• Is Part Of: International journal of bibliometrics in business and management. Volume 1:Number 3(2019)
• Page Start: 214
• Page End: 224
• Publication Date: 2019
• Subjects: food safety -- food sanitation -- hospitality -- tourism; Bibliometrics -- Periodicals; Business intelligence -- Periodicals; 650.0727
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2057-0546

Abstract

The present study examines research trends on food safety/sanitation in 16 leading hospitality and tourism (H&T) journals from 1976-2016. The researchers developed a database of 5, 333 articles related to food. Of this number, only 45 articles were related to food safety and published across eight H&T journals from 1976 to 2016. Thus, despite the size of the industry and importance of the topic, there still remains a dearth of food safety/sanitation publications. This article provides the first systematic analysis on food safety/sanitation research in the H&T context. It offers an analysis of the broad features of literature on food safety in the H&T context with a focus on international collaboration, highly productive countries, institutions and authors, methods of research, publication years, and journal distribution. In addition to highlighting a scarcity in advanced statistical research methods and international collaboration, the research findings also suggest that the majority of the studies analysed were empirical and conducted using quantitative methods.