Research Hotspots and Trends in the Development of Rural Tourism in China—Bibliometric Analysis Based on CiteSpace
This paper consults the relevant literature of rural tourism development in China from 1992 to 2023,and explores the development trends and changing laws of rural tourism from the literature characteristics,research hotspots and future trends.By using CiteSpace bibliomet-rics tool,it visually analyzes the number of published articles,authors,institutions and periodical distribution.As shown by the results,China's rural tourism document shows the periodical fluctuation trend.The research hotspots show the characteristics of scattered research ob-jects,diverse research perspectives and different year themes.In addition,the research focuses on"leisure agriculture","sightseeing agricul-ture"and"agricultural tourism".Finally,it is proposed to extend the future research from the emerging concepts of rural tourism,the devel-opment models of rural tourism in various regions,as well as the intelligent and information development of rural tourism.