Table 5 CBT articles in Academic journals per year
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Methodology CBT - Community-based Tourism, CT - Community Tourism, CBET - Community-Based Eco- Tourism, T - Title, A - Abstract and K- Keywords, TAK - Title, Abstract and Keywords. In specific terms the various database descriptions and searches are briefly described here to better portray the research. For clarity, the main feature search description above the characteristics and other possible search matters of each database are also outlined. Science Direct database includes almost 2,500 journals (Science Direct, online). The search was done through the ‘advanced search’ options available and was restricted to the journal category. Ingenta Connect presents itself as ‘offering one of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online - some 5 million articles from 10,000 publications’ (Ingenta connect, online). Again the search was done for journals through its advanced search. The EbscoHost databases searched were all of those to which the Durban University of Technology (DUT) subscribes (see Table 3). The search was limited to ‘scholarly journals only’ and ‘not in the full text’. In EbscoHost databases the ‘Keyword’ within TAK is substitute with the ‘Subject terms’ therefore instead of TAK it was ‘Title and Abstract and Subject terms’. Finally, as the search covered all databases, there were a lot of duplicates of journals appearing in more than one of the databases and these were removed in the final result list. Table 3 shows the databases subscribed to by the DUT. The Sabinet databases used to search the journal article category were the SA and African Electronic Journals (SA ePublications), African Journal Archive (AJA) and the Index to South African Periodicals (ISAP). In Sabinet there was a relevant limitation worth noting as only a title search was done because the Figure 1: CBT articles in academic journals per year (Authors) Figure 1 shows that while there has been a general upward trend in the growth of CBT related articles, there have been fluctuations during the period under investigation. Table 6 shows the number of articles published per journal derived from the Science Direct database. At the time of the study, the database contained 12 journals in which 54 articles were published. Table 9: Articles published i in journals in the EbscoHost database with two or more articles a | Pe ae ‘ice Community-based tourism research in academic journals 70 702 Mtapuri, Giampiccoli and Spershott It can be observed that many academic journals have published at least one article related to CBT in their issues. In fact, there are 400 articles on CBT covered in 136 different journals indicating the great reach and new appeal of CBT as a topic. Authors are linking the CBT topic to a wide range of disciplines in various tourism journals as well as journals of tourism education including law journals, journals related to the environment as well as to management. This is affirming the multidisciplinary aspects of tourism, and in this case of CBT as a tourism sub-subject. Both the increase in the number of articles from 1982 to 2013 and the conspicuous increase in number of journals in various disciplines which are publishing articles related to CBT, suggest that the discipline of CBT is consolidating. The growth in CBT has been acknowledged in the literature as Pookaiyaudom (2013) observes that CBT has been increasing in importance in developing countries in recent times. The same sentiments are shared by Mollel and Kotoroi (2014). Evidence is showing that since the times of Kadt (1979) and Murphy (1985) regarding the surfacing of CBT projects such as in Canada NWT (NWT, 1983) the discipline of CBT has been pursuing an upward trajectory within the tourism field.
