The purpose of this study is to examine the developmental research project of tourism based on the understanding of research trend regarding tourism. As searching the complete enumeration without restriction over time and space from initial stage to present, trend research is analyzed by subject, year, degree, university and department.
A data for research subject is conducted which the time period for the data is from 1980 to 2009 and 5,596 total theses were used for the data research which 4,535 theses was used for the master degree and other 1,061 theses were used for the doctorate which was extracted from National Library of Korea using 21 keywords related to the tourism. This study is meaningful to implement the complete enumeration targeting all theses published within Korea and is meaningful for analyzing the topics by Korean Decimal Classification (KDC).