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Below you will find a basic (rudimentary) commented bibliography – chronological organized - on research about the Baltics and Tourism.
This database research was at the moment mainly based on Scopus, Web of Science, - CEEOL
Still a very important publication to start is
Cottrell, S., Cottrell, J. R. (2015). The State of Tourism in the Baltics. Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 15(4), 321–326. doi.org/10.1080/15022250.2015.1081798 (2015:321) “This special issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism - https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/sjht20/15/4 is a collection of articles representing authors from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania as one of the first collective efforts to focus on tourism in the Baltics. The articles present empirical research via qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches. … The academic discourse in the English written literature about tourism to the Baltics is rather limited.”
Important articles in this special issue are for example
Povilanskas, R., Armaitiene, A., Jones, E., Valtas, G., Jurkus, E. (2015). Third-Country Tourists on the Ferries Linking Germany with Lithuania. Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 15(4), 327–340. https://doi.org/10.1080/15022250.2015.1024815
Further important publications are
Blatt, Benjamin (2015). Latvia a as Tourism Destination for German Tourists. Latgale National Economy Research. Journal of Social Sciences 1 (7). Rēzekne: Rezekne Academy of Technologies, 28–42. https://doi.org/10.17770/lner2015vol1.7.1178
Balode, I., Elsberga, I. (2018). Die baltischen Staaten. Zur Wahrnehmung der Entwicklungstendenzen im Tourismus. (The Baltic states. On the perception of development trends in tourism.) Sociolinguistica, 32(1), 185-198. https://doi.org/10.1515/soci-2018-0016
Jurmalis, E., Libiete, Z., (2019) Developing a framework for characterizing recreational potential of forest areas using weighted criteria analysis. see https://www2.llu.lv/research_conf/proceedings2019_vol_1/docs/LatviaResRuralDev_25th_2019_vol1-89-94.pdf
Sarancha, M. M. (2020). Assessing competitiveness of the Baltic states in tourism. Baltic Region, 12(3), 147-165. https://balticregion.kantiana.ru/en/jour/4716/26276/
Renfors, S. M., Veliverronena, L., Grinfelde, I. (2020). Developing Tourism Curriculum Content to Support International Tourism Growth and Competitiveness: An Example from the Central Baltic Area. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education, 32(2), 124–132. https://doi.org/10.1080/10963758.2019.1654889
Montvydaitė, D., Labanauskaitė, D. (2023). Investigation of relationsship between tourism and economic groth: The case oft he Baltic states. Management Theory and Studies for Rural Business and Infrastructure Development, 45(4), 406–418. https://doi.org/10.15544/mts.2023.40
Aleksandrova, A.Yu., Krasavtsev, I.V. (2023). Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States. Baltic Region, 15(1), 120-138. doi:10.5922/2079-8555-2023-1-7 https://balticregion.kantiana.ru/en/jour/5313/40590/
Garanti, Z., Zvaigzne, A., Berjozkina, G. (2023). Introduction: smart tourism: what developments and issues are important to the Baltic States? Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, Vol. 15 No. 5, pp. 463-467. https://doi.org/10.1108/WHATT-06-2023-0071