2010 年 62 巻 6 号 p. 537-547
The source, content, study methods, and author’s backgrounds of 1,993 papers on tourism, published in Tourism Tribune and Human Geography 2000-2009, were analyzed statistically by means of SPSS software. The results show that these studies are concentrated in three major areas: Tourism economics, tourism management, and tourism resources development and management. Among these studies, the hot topics are especially concentrated on tourism industries, tourist products, policies, regulations and systems, tourism planning and design, and tourism resources. The main study methods include the descriptive approach and the statistical method, but fewer applications on structural modeling methods. In addition, it is found that the authors of these studies mainly come from economically developed regions and colleges or universities in regions that are rich in tourism resources. Based on this statistical analysis, recommendations and prospects for future research of China tourism have been proposed at the end of this article.