Abstract
The purpose of this study is to clarify the historical development of ethnic tourism and its consequence in Taiwan during the period of Japanese colonized. Through the literature study, it comes to the following conclusions:
In the early Japanese colonized period, tourism was used as a kind of colonial policy to change the Taiwanese aboriginal culture and life style. When the suppression was down, the commercial tourism was promoted in the aboriginal community by the colonial government. The tourism policy in the time of Japanese colonized had a tremendous impact on the formative of tourism culture in Taiwan, and had a great influence on the formulation of people's understandings on tourism.
