The purpose of this research was to replicate an earlier study that analyzed hospitality and tourism research contributions in the first decade of the new millennium (Park et al., 2011) using a time frame of 2010-2019. The present study reviewed six top-tier hospitality and tourism journals, including the International Journal of Hospitality Management, Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, Tourism Management, Journal of Travel Research, and Annals of Tourism Research. The papers were classified by research themes in the hospitality and tourism categories, respectively. The results offered the rankings by publication productivity pertaining to individual authors, universities, and countries/regions across the world. The findings give insights into future directions and identify research needs for academicians and industry practitioners in the hospitality and tourism field.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my major professor, Dr. Tang, for her patiently guidance and professional support. She gave me inspirations and instructions to help me complete my research work. Besides my major professor, I also would like to thank my committee members, Dr. Zheng and Dr. Olson, for leading me finish the course work and providing me precious advices to improve my research quality.I thank Jiyeon Jeon and Xi Wang, who gave me guidance on collecting and analyzing data. Because of their support, my thesis got more reliable result.Last but not the least, my sincere thanks also go to my family, for their understanding and offering me the opportunity to study in the master program, without them, this thesis would not have been possible.