Procedia Engineering 182 (2017) 687 – 693 Available online at www.sciencedirect.com 1877-7058 © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of EPPM2016 doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2017.03.180 ScienceDirect 7th International Conference on Engineering, Project, and Production Management Tourism Supply Chain – Overview of Selected Literature Danuta Szpilko* Faculty of Management, Bialystok University of Technology, Wiejska 45A, 15-351 Bialystok, Poland Abstract The development of tourism is inextricably linked to the operation of tourism enterprises and tourism products offered by them. A competitive advantage for enterprises, in the market of tourist services, can be provided by innovative products comprising a response to the ever-increasing customer expectations. The specificity of product development in the tourism industry requires the commitment and cooperation of many partners – operators in the tourist supply chain. The purpose of this article is to identify the areas of research analysed in the international literature in the field of tourism supply chain, published in the Web of Science. The results of the analysis are presented in the form of a map of themes (research areas) most commonly occurring in configuration with the term of the tourism supply chain, as well as in terms of their coexistence in the analysed pool of articles. The process of preparing the article involved the use of the methods of bibliometric analysis and network analysis. © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of EPPM2016. Keywords: tourism; supply chain; tourism supply chain management; knowledge map; research area; bibliometric analysis 1. Introduction Tourism is one of the fastest growing economic sectors in the world, which is confirmed by statistical research of the United Nations World Tourism Organization and the World Travel and Tourism Council, who noted became its steady increase after World War II in both the number of international tourist trips, and tourism revenue. In 1950, the number of international tourist trips amounted to 25 million, and in 2015 increased to 1,186 billion [1]. The revenue from international tourism from year to year is also rapidly increasing. In 1950, it accounted for USD 2 billion, in 1980 – USD 104 billion, in 1995 – USD 415 billion, and in 2015 increased to USD 1260 billion [1]. In 2015, the tourism sector, on a global scale, was the source generating 9.8% of global żDP, the value of which amounted to USD * Corresponding author. E-mail address: d.szpilko@pb.edu.pl © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of EPPM2016