以中文核心、CSSCI、CSCD为信息源，全面统计改革开放30年来国内旅游类期刊论文并主要分析其时序特征。结果表明：3大核心库中共有429种期刊刊载旅游论文；核心论文共计16791篇；旅游经济管理和旅游地理研究是论文主要方向；旅游学术论文发展可以分为4个阶段，其中1990年以前研究方向拓展最快，论文覆盖所有方向的89.2%，而2000年后论文数量最多，占四阶段总量的71.4%；高校成为学术论文发表主要基地，其次是各类研究院所；论文格式渐趋规范。期刊论文从一个侧面反映中国旅游研究发展进展与历程，即30年来中国旅游研究发展快、成果规模大；主要源于地理学、经济学等传统学科并逐步形成综合性应用型学科；繁荣于2000年后而发轫于1990年前；专业性教研单位成为研究主体；尚需提高学科地位、强化基础理论、完善学科体系、提升学术规范水平。

By searching the information in Chinese Core Journal Series, Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index(CSSCI) and Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD), for the purpose of describing the process and progress of modern tourism research in China, a comprehensive statistical study of domestic tourism journals and papers in the past 30 years was carried out. The results showed that the three major databases indexed 429 Chinese journals involved in tourism research and 16791 papers about tourism with economic and geographic research for application as the two main directions. Tourism paper publication can be divided into four periods according to the number of articles and the relevant fields. Before 1990, tourism research fields expanded rapidly, covering 89.2% of all the directions, while the post-2000 period had the largest number of papers, accounting for 71.42% of the total. Most of the papers were submitted from colleges and universities, followed by the institutes. Paper publication can reflect the progress of Chinese tourism research. It can be concluded that rapid development of tourism industry resulted in great achievements in tourism research since the national reform and opening up in 1978. Chinese modern tourism research originated from traditional disciplines such as geography and economics, and gradually formed a inter-disciplinary and application-oriented subject. The research outcomes has been booming after 2000, while the disciplinary framework was constructed before 1990. Professional academic institutions became the principal organizations for studying. In the future, there are four main challenges: to enhance the status of tourism science, to strengthen fundamental research, to build the unique disciplinary system and to inteping; and to improve the research quality.