ABSTRACT
The pandemic has had unprecedented consequences for the worldwide tourism industry, prompting a downpour of academic research. The present endeavor provides comprehensive literature on the tourism industry in the wake of COVID-19. The review looks at the most prominent countries, institutions, authors, and journals, as well as the most often utilized keywords by authors, publishers, and editors. The Scopus database was used to retrieve related papers, and the bibliometric exploration was carried out to find collaborative relationships among countries, institutions, and authors as well as the co-occurrence of all keywords in the literature, utilizing Vosviewer, the far more commonly applied visualization software. Inclusion-exclusion criteria were met by 488 papers out of 1057. According to the study, China, the United States, and the United Kingdom are the most productive countries, in line with research publications. The two most lucrative institutions have been recognized as Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Sejong University. The most active authors were reported to be Han, H., Law, R., and Nicolau, J.L.;the most prolific journal was Sustainability Switzerland. In addition to this, Wang Y. was found to be the most collaborative author, and China was the most cooperative country. Furthermore, the most common keywords reflecting the current leading research are COVID-19 and tourism. The study's findings provide significant insight into current developments in the tourism industry in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic on a global scale.