Abstract: The projects sponsored by science foundation reflect the current research focus of the discipline. This paper makes statistics and word frequency analysis on all tourism research projects sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation, National Social Science Foundation, the Education of Humanities and Social Science Research Foundation, and National Tourism Administration Foundation from 2004 to 2013. The research indicates that the number of the projects sponsored by science foundation increased year by year, yet the distribution of researchers and study cases are unbalanced. The hot word frequency of tourism projects sponsored by four kinds of foundation poses a difference which covers seven hot areas, including tourism industry research, tourism resources development and protection, eco-tourism and eco-environmental impact of tourism, tourism flows and travel behavior, rural tourism, and cultural heritage tourism, etc. The research methods are diversified, and the number of cross-disciplinary researches is increasing. The study features the diversification of tourism research with further expansion and in-depth penetration.

Keywords: tourism research; projects sponsored by foundations; word frequency analysis; study progress

摘要： 科学基金资助项目在一定程度上反映了学科当前的研究热点。通过对2004~2013年间国家自然科学基金、国家社会科学基金、教育部人文社会科学研究基金项目以及国家旅游局科研项目中的旅游项目的统计和词频分析，研究发现：基金资助旅游项目数量逐年增长，研究人员和研究案例地空间分布不平衡；4类基金资助旅游项目热点词频各有不同，内容涵盖7个热点研究内容，包括旅游产业研究、旅游资源开发与保护、生态旅游与旅游生态环境影响、旅游流与旅游行为、乡村旅游和文化遗产旅游等；研究方法多样化，学科交叉研究增多；研究成果的形式呈现多样化特征；未来旅游研究将继续拓展和深入。
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关键词: 旅游研究, 基金资助项目, 词频分析, 研究进展