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Abstract
Community-based tourism and sustainable development are interconnected through a shared emphasis on community empowerment, participatory governance, and a balanced integration of economic, socio-cultural, and environmental outcomes. Integrating the concepts of community-based tourism and sustainable development is crucial to ensuring that local communities are involved in tourism planning and decision-making, gain economic benefits, and preserve their cultural and environmental heritage. This study analyzes research trends on the relationship between community-based tourism and sustainable development using a bibliometric analysis approach. Data sources were obtained from the Scopus journal database, with 158 articles published up to October 2025. The bibliometric method involved several stages, including identifying the profiles of the most productive authors, analyzing the number of citations and types of publications, and analyzing keyword co-occurrence. The VOSviewer application was also used to map and visualize the network of interrelationships between concepts in the academic literature regarding "community-based tourism" and "sustainable development." The results of the VOSviewer analysis mapped five main thematic clusters, indicating a strong correlation between community-based tourism and core concepts such as empowerment, livelihood, ecotourism, stakeholders, and local participation. This reflects the dominant research focus on inclusive governance and empowerment to achieve multidimensional sustainability. The mapping also uncovered significant research gaps, particularly in more nuanced impact studies (e.g., the empowerment of indigenous women) and exploring the integration of digital tools in CBT, both of which were largely absent from the thematic map. These findings can provide a foundation for promoting more inclusive, resilient, and sustainable tourism models that deliver tangible benefits to communities and the environment.