Social network analysis in hospitality and tourism: Guest editorial

Social network analysis (SNA) has rapidly grown in the hospitality and tourism field in the past two decades. Although this approach remains widely applied in bibliometric studies, shedding light on the intellectual structure, progress of scientific collaboration and research themes, other areas of increasing interest concern the study of collaboration and stakeholders’ interactions as vehicles of innovation, sustainable development and value co-creation processes. The special issue aims to provide theoretical, methodological and empirically relevant contributions to the study of hospitality and tourism through the lenses of the SNA. It includes 13 studies that address a variety of topics and perspectives, embracing quantitative, qualitative and mixed approaches of analysis.