This research provides a bibliometric analysis of publications dedicated to career trajectories in the tourism sector, based on a corpus of 76 documents indexed in the Scopus database between 1982 and 2025. The study highlights a growing scientific dynamic, although marked by strong geographical and institutional concentration, with a predominance of Anglo-Saxon and Asian countries and a limited representation of African and Latin American contexts. The exploration of co-occurrence networks reveals four structuring axes: training and employability, the labor market and organizational leadership, students’ perceptions, as well as employee mobility and retention. These themes reflect a conception of tourism careers as non-linear and fragmented paths, characterized by a constant tension between structural instability and opportunities for professional development. The analysis also underlines the weakness of international collaborations and the relative absence of comparative approaches, which limits the global scope of scientific production. Finally, the results emphasize the current limitations of the literature, particularly the scarcity of longitudinal studies, the limited integration of contemporary transformations such as digitalization or global crises, and the lack of perspectives grounded in the realities of the Global South. This study therefore opens up avenues for future research aimed at enriching the understanding of professional dynamics in tourism and informing policies for training, management, and retention of human resources in a constantly changing sector.