Tourism related to the sea and boating activities is becoming increasingly popular and revolves around a range of leisure, water sports, nautical or other maritime activities. This article studies the main scientific contributions in this area, bearing in mind the complexity of finding a suitable definition of this concept. Hence, the aim of this paper is to analyze the scientific production from 1986 to 2020 in impact journals of the terms “nautical tourism”, “maritime tourism” and “marine tourism” considering the following variables: number of documents, number of articles, period being studied, Hirsch citations and index. The results show an increasing trend in terms of both the number of published articles and citations publications from 2007 onwards and the review of the literature raises the need to define a new concept: “blue tourism”. Future trends in research include terms such as tourist ports, quality of websites and blue economy.

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航海海洋旅游全球研究的分析与趋势

与海上和划船活动有关的旅游业越来越受欢迎，并围绕一系列休闲，水上运动，航海或其他海上活动展开。考虑到为该概念找到合适定义的复杂性，本文研究了该领域的主要科学贡献。因此，本文旨在分析1986年至2020年影响期刊中“航海旅游”，“海上旅游”和“海洋旅游”的科学生产，并考虑以下变量：文件数量，文章数量，研究期间，Hirsch的引文和索引。结果表明，从2007年开始，无论是已发表的文章还是引证出版物的数量都在增加，对文献的评论提出了定义一个新概念的必要性：“蓝色旅游”。