An article of Prof. Tongqian Zou, Vice-rector of our university, has been published in the prestigious journal Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. The article is entitled “Mapping the evolution and future directions of creative tourism: a comprehensive bibliometric analysis”, which summarizes the theoretical evolution of creative tourism and analyzes future directions on a scientific basis using VOSViewer and CiteSpace software. It is notable that “Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research” is indexed in Web of Science and Scopus databases.