Developing strategic relationships for religious tourism businesses: a systematic literature review

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to systematically analyse the existing literature on the interrelationships of tourism businesses in the context of religious tourism. By taking a systematic approach to literature review, a total of 34 academic articles was content analysed. As a general framework, Watkins and Bell's classification was applied in order to increase the review consistency and validity. The results show that the inter-relationships of tourism businesses have gained an increasing academic attention in the past decade in terms of the number of published articles. The various categories of inter-organisational relationships often used in relation to tourism business setting are explored. The timeline of business relationships research in tourism literature are presented along with methodological approach of the literature. The most of existing articles claim to study the cooperative relationships of tourism businesses. The main methodological approach used in studying inter-organisational relationships of tourism businesses was empirical one.