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Islamic tourism and efficiency is gaining attention in the tourism literature in recent years. The aim of this paper is to examine Islamic Tourism and efficiency using bibliometric analysis. This study uses bibliometric analytical techniques to explore all the publications indexed in the Scopus database in the broad subject of and Islamic tourism and efficiency from 2000 to 2021. There are 174 publications that fit the function, subject and set criteria. The papers were analysed in terms of publication by knowledge area, number of studies published every year, contribution by countries, number of authors and most influential journals. VOS viewer was used to perform a visual analysis on co-occurrence of keywords and document citations. The paper used bibliometric analysis and visualization of similarities viewer software for the graphical conception of the bibliographic data, including bibliographic coupling, cocitation and co-occurrence of keywords. This study found that, the Scopus database includes 89 (23.80%) document on social, 21.39% documents on business and 17.38% documents on management and accounting environmental science. It was reported that 25 documents were published in 2019, followed by 31 documents in 2020 and 45 documents in 2021. Malaysia has contributed 18 documents on Islamic tourism and efficiency, whereas Indonesia has contributed 16 documents. Hence, the contribution of this study is to identifies both areas of current research interest and potential directions for future research.
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