Larbi Safaa

Biographic Data

ID6295155
NAMELarbi Safaa
GIVEN NAMESLarbi
FAMILY NAMESafaa
SIGNATURESAFAA L
AFFILIATIONSCadi Ayyad University
ORCID0000-0002-1696-2445
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT19
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Tourism, Sustainability and Innovation

    Open AccessLarbi Safaa, Walter Leal Filho et al.BOOKTourism, Sustainability and…2026

  • Art tourism, a nascent concept but symptomatic of a trend

    Open AccessSoufiane Benhaida, Larbi Safaa et al.ARTICLEMondes du tourisme2026

    Artistic tourism, an engaging fusion of art, culture, and travel, offers a unique pathway for cultural enrichment and leisure exploration amidst the diverse array of global cultures. This form of travel combines art, heritage, and creativity, providing tourists with immersive experiences that delve into the essence of a destination through its artistic expressions. This study was conducted based on a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of artisti…

  • Mapping Career Paths

    Open AccessOumaima Lamhour, Larbi Safaa et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences2026

    In a rapidly changing professional landscape marked by digitization, socio-economic transformations, and post-pandemic upheavals, understanding career trajectories has become an interdisciplinary concern. This study presents a systematic bibliometric review of 135 peer-reviewed articles published between 1990 and 2025 and extracted from the Scopus database. Using VOSviewer and Bibliometrix, the analysis maps the intellectual structure, thematic e…

  • Diagnosing unperceived values in tourist dissatisfaction across the European route of industrial heritage

    Abdellah Saoualih, Sara Sampieri et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Tourism2026

    This study examines how unperceived values drive tourist dissatisfaction at European industrial heritage sites. Using 4,261 negative Google reviews from 67 sites in 12 countries, it applies a semantic text mining to map dissatisfaction within an inverted value-based framework. The results show that functional issues predominate, ranging from infrastructural decay and operational mismanagement to accessibility gaps, service inconsistencies, and en…

  • Assessing UN SDGs Operationalization in Sustainable Tourism Development

    Open AccessAbdellah Saoualih, Larbi Safaa et al.ARTICLESustainable Development2026

    This study examines how the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are operationalized in the empirical literature on sustainable tourism development (STD). Methodologically, a corpus of 39 studies was retained from Scopus and Web of Science after a systematic screening process. Abstract text mining was used through an unsupervised machine learning model to identify thematic structures across the literature. The resulting topics…

  • Tourism and Heritage

    Open AccessSara Sampieri, Abdellah Saoualih et al.BOOKTourism and Heritage2025

  • Cartographie conceptuelle de la personnalité de destination touristique

    Open AccessSoufiane Benhaida, Larbi Safaa et al.ARTICLEÉtudes caribéennes2025

    La personnalité de destination est un concept central du branding touristique, permettant d’anthropomorphiser les destinations afin de créer des liens émotionnels avec les touristes, d’influencer leurs perceptions et de renforcer leur fidélité. Cette étude propose une analyse bibliométrique des recherches consacrées à ce concept, en explorant son évolution, ses thématiques clés et ses connexions interdisciplinaires. S’appuyant sur les publication…

  • Abdellatif Aït Ben Abdallah

    Open AccessHicham Saddou, Larbi SafaaARTICLEÉtudes caribéennes2025

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  • Articuler tourisme et patrimoine

    Open AccessLarbi Safaa, Khalid El HousniARTICLEÉtudes caribéennes2025

  • A Decade of Empirical Research into the Careers of Visual Artists

    Open AccessAbdellah Saoualih, Larbi Safaa et al.ARTICLEFudan Journal of the Humanities…2025

  • Computational mining of empirical literature on forest recreation

    Open AccessAbdellah Saoualih, Dalia Perkumiene et al.ARTICLETrees Forests and People2025

    This paper conducts a thematic literature review of advancements in forest recreation research. Methodologically, we analyzed a corpus of empirical articles in economics and management published between 2015 and 2024, sourced from the Scopus and Web of Science databases. Using the BERTopic algorithm for semantic topic modeling, we identified six distinct topics, each highlighting specific aspects and geographical diversity in forest recreation. T…

  • Sustainable Business Management in Higher Education Institutions

    Open AccessAbdellah Saoualih, Larbi Safaa et al.ARTICLESustainable Development2025References: 9

    This thematic review examines how the empirical literature has addressed sustainable business management (SBM) in higher education institutions (HEIs), identifies the thematic trajectories that have emerged, and diagnoses the existing gaps in order to inform the future research agenda. The analysis draws on a corpus of 107 studies published between 2020 and 2024, retrieved from Scopus and Web of Science. Using abstract‐based semantic text mining …

  • A thematic investigation of tourist experiential gaps in Moroccan cultural heritage museums using a sentiment-guided Bertopic text mining approach

    Abdellah Saoualih, Shiwei Shen et al.ARTICLETourism Recreation Research2025References: 68

  • Acquirements of three decades of literature on cultural tourism

    Open AccessSoufiane Benhaida, Hicham Saddou et al.ARTICLEJournal of Infrastructure Policy…2024

    Cultural tourism, an important component of the wider tourism industry, has received significant attention due to the complex interplay between cultural heritage and tourism experiences. This form of tourism invites tourists to discover the arts, traditions, and lifestyles of diverse communities, thereby enriching intercultural encounters. Examining the rapidly evolving field of cultural tourism research, this article looks at its many facets, hi…

  • Tourism Development through the Sense of Unesco World Heritage

    Open AccessSara Sampieri, Abdellah Saoualih et al.ARTICLEHeritage2024Cited by: 1References: 8

    This study explores the perception of a “sense of place” among tourists visiting Hegra, an archaeological site in northern Saudi Arabia, through reviews on TripAdvisor. The 267 reviews on TripAdvisor between 2020 and 2023 were analyzed using the VADER sentiment polarity analysis tool and object modeling using the NMF machine learning algorithm. The results highlight positive factors linked to the history and uniqueness of the place while showing …

  • Tourisme créatif

    Larbi Safaa, Bérangère L SzostakARTICLEMarché et organisations2023

    Le tourisme créatif est l’ensemble des activités fondées sur la culture, la créativité et le patrimoine de l’environnement visité ; ces activités sont proposées aux personnes qui voyagent pour le loisir ou les affaires. Cette nouvelle forme de tourisme transforme les activités touristiques actuelles et pose des enjeux inédits en économie et management de la créativité. L’ambition de cet article est de mettre en relief les principales transformati…

  • What gender does to tourism (and vice versa). Introduction

    Open AccessChristophe Guibert, Alain A Grenier et al.ARTICLEMondes du tourisme2023

    The theme chosen for this issue of Mondes du tourisme is scientifically and symbolically important. It aims to examine tourism, in all its forms, from a variety of disciplinary approaches (in the social sciences and management sciences), in the light of gender issues. Questioning social relations of domination through the prism of gender relations is a crucial issue (and not only when studying tourism, of course). It is also a complex subject. It…

  • Ce que le genre fait au tourisme (et inversement). Introduction

    Open AccessChristophe Guibert, Alain A Grenier et al.ARTICLEMondes du tourisme2023

    Le thme retenu pour le prsent dossier de Mondes du tourisme est scientifiquement et symboliquement important. Il vise interroger le tourisme, sous toutes ses formes, via des approches disciplinaires varies (en sciences sociales et sciences de gestion), l'aune des questions de genre. Questionner les rapports sociaux de domination travers le prisme des rapports femmes/hommes est un enjeu crucial (et pas uniquement lorsque l'on tudie le tourisme, bi…

  • Exploring the Relationship between Social Media and Tourist Experiences

    Open AccessSamia Idbenssi, Larbi Safaa et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences2023Cited by: 1References: 7

    In recent years, the relationship between the tourism experience and social media has become an increasingly popular research topic. Previous research has focused only on certain aspects of the tourism experience and social media, but none have covered the subject in depth. To fill this gap, this study takes a holistic approach and combines both concepts simultaneously. This article presents a new overview of scientific production through an in-d…

  • Destination touristique entre crise et résilience

    Open AccessLarbi Safaa, Khalid El HousniARTICLEÉtudes caribéennes2022

    Entretien avec Mustapha Amalik et Mohamed Ait Tejan, respectivement secrétaire général et directeur de l’Association Régionale de l’Industrie Hôtelière de Marrakech-Safi (ARIH). Cette entrevue est l’occasion de connaitre de près le rôle des acteurs et parties prenantes dans la création d’une synergie vertueuse pour préparer la reprise et repenser les destinations touristiques post Covid-19. Pour ce faire, nous questionnons, dans la figure de l’AR…

  • Des technologies et des destinations touristiques intelligentes

    Open AccessLarbi Safaa, Abdellah SaoualihARTICLEÉtudes caribéennes2022

    Réseaux intelligents, destinations intelligentes, villes intelligentes.... sont des concepts qui ont le vent en poupe ces dernières années. Ils sont les composantes d’une rhétorique qui prônent des idéaux technos/éco systémique à travers le déploiement des technologies dites « intelligentes », de la gestion optimisée de l’énergie, pour in fine prétendre participer à l’amélioration de la qualité de vie des résidents et des touristes. Cette contrib…