Eco-Tourism Research Landscape: A Systematic Literature Review Perspective

Ecotourism, sustainable ecotourism, community-based, Viability, Behavioural, Systematic literature review

Ecotourism is gaining ground day by day, as the concept of sustainable tourism has gained recognition. This paper investigates the ecotourism research landscape and its transformative phases by analysing its related studies, their underlying objectives, theoretical underpinnings, methodological approaches, future scopes, and implications through a systematic literature review perspective. This study selected 50 relevant articles on ecotourism from 2870 articles from the year 2000 to 2025 and reported a detailed account of all the dimensions of ecotourism. Also, this research narrated the existing research gaps and the future scope of ecotourism.