This research reviews how tourism geography studies in South Korea have evolved since 2000. There are two purposes of this study. One is to analyze the research trend patterns of tourism geography studies. The other is to bring out new direction from the research results for sustainable tourism geography. Content analysis is employed for 238 articles that are published in major tourism research journals. The studies of hospitality have developed by the growth of tourism/recreation activities, and industries. However, even though tourism geography is a core discipline that is based on space for tourism phenomena, it is currently is ignored and threatened in the academic world. The results indicate that the dominant research trend of tourism geography is about tourists. In addition, tourist destination, tourism development, tourism resource, image of tourist destination, development of tourism resource, tourism information, resident of tourist destination are also major topics in tourism geography since 2000. Such results are assumed that a marketing-based approach is central to tourism studies rather than a spatial-based approach by tourism geographers. In terms of academic societies, the most published tourism academic society in tourism geography theme is the Tourism Sciences Society of Korea (TOSOK). The next most published academic societies are The Korea Academic Society of Tourism and Leisure (KASTLE), The Academy of Korea Hospitality & Tourism (AKHT), Korea Tourism Research Association (KTRA), Korea Academic Society of Hospitality Administration (KASHA), and The Association of Korean Photo- Geographers (AKPG). In terms of research methodology, most of studies are based on quantitative empirical research methods with a lack of qualitative research methods. In terms of research topics, the scope of research topics have been extended and reflected in tourism phenomena as solutions for solving our real problems. However, as a conceptual frame, an academic immaturity of tourism geography that cannot consider the diversity of tourism phenomena originated from the complexity of our society is a serious weakness. So, as one of tourism disciplines, tourism geography should specialize in its academic identity through a unique spatial approach, interdisciplinary approach, regional approach, and GIS-based visualization for sustainable tourism geography studies.