Sustainable tourists’ behaviours (STB) is a rapidly growing field within sustainable tourism. This paper contributes to this emerging body of knowledge through a bibliometric analysis of publications on this topic using Scopus and VOSViewer and a systematic review of the literature.

After a number of iterations, a total of 144 journal articles were selected. This paper identifies key themes, and debates related to STBand finds that there is a relatively limited amount of scholarly research on actual tourist behaviours directly related to environmental sustainability, with a notable lack of qualitative research. Similarly, it is argued that some sustainability topics widely studied in other disciplines are overlooked in the STB literature, including sustainable waste classification and recycling, and applications of sustainable design. Moreover, this systematic review of the literature revealed important gaps in the development of theory in this field, particularly among more recent studies. The paper builds on this to explore potential future lines of research in the area of sustainable tourists’ behaviour.