Tourism crises are important events affecting the development of destinations. However, the academic community lacks adequate knowledge from the accumulated literature on the classification attributes, spatial distribution, and impact structure of global tourism crises. This research analyzed 302 articles related to tourism crises from 1991 to 2020 drawn from the Social Sciences Citation Index database. Bibliometric and content analyses were conducted to identify the event types, regional distribution, impact structure, and synergistic factors of tourism crises. The results showed that the extant research on tourism crises has event-driven characteristics. The types of tourism crises are diverse and have multiple subcategories. The tourism crises featured in academic research are mainly events affecting Asia, Europe, and North America, reflecting their real-world distribution. The impacts of tourism crises on destinations are at three levels: macro, meso, and micro. Synergistic factors can enhance or weaken the degree of crisis impacts, which include positive, negative, and interactive factors. Research on tourism crises has substantial future scope and this investigation puts forward an agenda for this work.

旅游危机是影响目的地发展的重要事件。但是，学术界从积累的文献中缺乏关于全球旅游危机的分类属性，空间分布和影响结构的足够知识。这项研究分析了1991年至2020年来自社会科学引文索引数据库的302篇与旅游危机相关的文章。进行了文献计量和内容分析，以识别旅游危机的事件类型，区域分布，影响结构和协同因素。结果表明，现有的旅游危机研究具有事件驱动特征。旅游业危机的类型多种多样，有多个子类别。学术研究中的旅游危机主要是影响亚洲，欧洲和北美的事件，反映他们的真实世界分布。旅游危机对目的地的影响分为三个层次：宏观，中观和微观。协同因素可以增强或减弱危机影响的程度，包括积极，消极和互动因素。关于旅游危机的研究具有广阔的未来范围，这项调查提出了这项工作的议程。