Tourism Supply Chain-Overview of Selected Literature

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.