Abstract: Doctoral and Master's tourist dissertations embody the width and depth of tourism study in some degree. Based on consulting "Chinese Dissertations Database (CDDB)" in technical information sub-system of Wanfang data resources system, the paper gets 408 Doctoral and Master's dissertations on tourism from 1988 to 2001. By using SPSS, the paper gives systematic analysis on dissertation's number increase, specialty's background, study content, study method and case region, indicating five features of Chinese tourism study.(1) Since 1995, the dissertations have gone up rapidly. Tourism higher education offers solid personnel resources foundation for tourism study, and they cater to the need of Chinese tourism development.(2) With wide specialty's background, the dissertations are from the angels of different subjects, which enriches the contents, theories and methods of tourism research.(3) The study contents of dissertations are very rich, covering tourism subject, object, medium and their mutual links, influences and functions. But because of the rational demands of practical features in tourism study and the perceptual calls of realistic needs in society, tourism study concentrates more on the aspects of economy and technology than society, culture, education, environment, history, policy and so on.(4) As for the study methods of the 408 dissertations, most of them are descriptive method, which occupy 58.3%, and 26.4%, 7.1%, 8.2% for notional method, tectonic method, and mathematical statistic method. Study method and means remain to be improved.(5) At present, tourism dissertations mainly analyze some cases in the eastern and middle areas of China, which amounts to 145, and possesses 76.32%. To Jiangsu, Liaoning, Hubei, Shangdong, Guangdong, Zhejiang provinces and their affiliated cities and counties, the study is fairly comprehensive on tourism resources evaluation and development, tourism planning and design, tourism development strategy and tourism management. There are 45 dissertations studying on western areas, which takes 23.68%. Except Shanxi and Yunnan, other 10 provinces' tourism basic studies are rather weak. With rapid development process of the western area, it is imperative to strengthen the study on eco-tourism, minority nationality culture tourism, tourism planning, etc.Based on above-mentioned analysis, the paper also puts forward the prospects for future tourism study.