Along with info-communication and environment industry, the Tourist industry is being classified with future high-technology industry. However, in the edge of this special situation caused by the world economy recession, it is indispensible that Korea modify not a little part of its tourist policy. Our nation's tourist industry made its start as a consequence of the government's enacting the Tourist Promotion Law in 1961, after that, in 1975, the government designated the industry to the nation's strategic industry and exploited the tourist sites and increased the tourist facilities. Fully supported by government, the tourist industry had the eye-opening progress. And the two big world festivals, Asian Game in 1986 and Seoul Olympic Game in 1988, made the nation's tourist industry progress very rapid. But the continued progression of the industry turned its black to red in the beginning of the 1991, what makes it worse, that red figures is more and more expanding its range. After Olympic Game, according to the export boom of manufacturing industry and the policy reinforcing the nation's discipline, the tourist industry was judged as the luxury-tendency industry and faced with the stiff capital decrease. To the matter of worse, with the all-out opening the trip overseas in 1989, people's reckless trip overseas more deepened the disparity between black and red. Added to that, recent economic crisisOMF) in 1997 and nation's economic deterioration caused by the worldwide recession have the serious effects on the tourist industry. So, in this study, I will analyze the reality of the tourist business, at present, the basic root of the nation's tourist industry, and diagnose it. In conclusion I hope to find the sound direction of the nation's tourist business.