Residents’ empowerment in tourism contexts: a structured literature review and future research agenda

This research examines empowering residents and highlights various theories, research countries, top-cited papers, methodologies, contexts, and opportunities for further study. It employs the recommended Scientific procedures and rationales for systematic literature review (SPAR-4-SLR) techniques to systematically review, synthesise, and integrate the literature on resident empowerment using the theory-context-methodologies (TCM) framework. The findings revealed that a large number of studies are conducted in rural contexts, and Scheyvens’ framework was adopted by the researchers. This comprehensive overview provides a foundation for future research. It contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between residents’ empowerment and tourism development by analysing the most commonly used theories and methodologies and studying the context in the resident empowerment domain.