Table 3.
The list of 30 most cited articles.
| Number | Node | Author | Year | Title | Journal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | Pruitt, D., & LaFont | 1995 | For love and money: romance tourism in Jamaica. | Annals of tourism research |
| 2 | 13 | Herold, Garcia, & DeMoya | 2001 | Female tourists and beach boys: romance or sex tourism? | Annals of tourism Research |
| 3 | 15 | Taylor | 2006 | Female sex tourism: a contradiction in terms? | Feminist review |
| 4 | 19 | Wilson & Little | 2008 | The solo female travel experience: Exploring the ‘geography of women's fear’ | Current Issues in Tourism |
| 5 | 21 | Jordan & Aitchison | 2008 | Tourism and the sexualisation of the gaze: Solo female tourists' experiences of gendered power, surveillance and embodiment. | Leisure Studies |
| 6 | 25 | McNamara & Prideaux | 2010 | A typology of solo independent women travellers. | International Journal of Tourism Research |
| 7 | 26 | Heimtun & Abelsen | 2012 | The tourist experience and bonding. | Current Issues in Tourism |
| 8 | 29 | Heimtun | 2012 | The friend, the loner and the independent traveller: Norwegian midlife single women's social identities when on holiday. | Gender, Place & Culture |
| 9 | 30 | Weichselbaumer | 2012 | Sex, romance and the carnivalesque between female tourists and Caribbean men. | Tourism Management |
| 10 | 33 | Berdychevsky, Gibson, & Bell | 2013 | Girlfriend getaways and women's well-being. | Journal of Leisure Research |
| 11 | 34 | Berdychevsky, Poria, & Uriely | 2013 | Sexual behavior in women's tourist experiences: Motivations, behaviors, and meanings. | Tourism Management |
| 12 | 35 | Berdychevsky, Gibson, & Poria | 2013 | Women's sexual behavior in tourism: Loosening the bridle. | Annals of Tourism Research |
| 13 | 40 | Guo | 2014 | Chinese women and travel: historical and contemporary experiences. | Annals of Tourism Research |
| 14 | 42 | Berdychevsky, Gibson, & Poria | 2015 | Inversions of sexual roles in women's tourist experiences: Mind, body, and language in sexual behaviour. | Leisure Studies |
| 15 | 44 | Berdychevsky, & Gibson | 2015 | Phenomenology of young women's sexual risk-taking in tourism. | Tourism Management |
| 16 | 54 | Berdychevsky, Gibson, & Bell | 2016 | “Girlfriend getaway” as a contested term: Discourse analysis | Tourism Management |
| 17 | 55 | Gao & Kerstetter | 2016 | Using an intersectionality perspective to uncover older Chinese female's perceived travel constraints and negotiation strategies. | Tourism Management |
| 18 | 56 | Khan, Chelliah., & Ahmed | 2017 | Factors influencing destination image and visit intention among young women travellers: Role of travel motivation, perceived risks, and travel constraints. | Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research |
| 19 | 57 | Zhang, & Hitchcock | 2017 | The Chinese female tourist gaze: A netnography of young women's blogs on Macao. | Current Issues in Tourism |
| 20 | 58 | Yang,Khoo-Lattimore, & Arcodia | 2017 | A narrative review of Asian female travellers: Looking into the future through the past. | Current Issues in Tourism |
| 21 | 61 | Durko, & Stone | 2017 | Even lovers need a holiday: Women's reflections of travel without their partners. | Tourism Management Perspectives |
| 22 | 62 | Brown, & Osman | 2017 | The female tourist experience in Egypt as an Islamic destination. | Annals of Tourism Research |
| 23 | 69 | Seow & Brown | 2020 | The solo female Asian tourist. | Current Issues in Asian Tourism |
| 24 | 73 | Mirehie, Gibson, Khoo-Lattimore, & Prayag | 2018 | An exploratory study of hospitality needs and preferences of US Girlfriend Getaways. | Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management |
| 25 | 74 | Pritchard | 2018 | Predicting the next decade of tourism gender research. | Tourism Management Perspectives |
| 26 | 75 | Yang, Khoo-Lattimore, & Arcodia | 2018 | Constructing space and self through risk taking: A case of Asian solo female travelers. | Journal of Travel Research |
| 27 | 76 | Yang, Khoo-Lattimore, & Arcodia | 2018 | Power and empowerment: How Asian solo female travellers perceive and negotiate risks. | Tourism Management |
| 28 | 78 | Yang, Yang, & Khoo-Lattimore | 2019 | The meanings of solo travel for Asian women. | Tourism Review |
| 29 | 87 | Osman, Brown, & Phung | 2020 | The travel motivations and experiences of female Vietnamese solo travellers. | Tourist Studies |
| 30 | 88 | Su, & Wu | 2022 | The dark side of solo female travel: Negative encounters with male strangers. | Innovation and Impact of Sex as Leisure in Research and Practice |