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The purpose of study is to provide suggestions for tourism Official Development Assistance (ODA) in Korea. Tourism ODA has expanded and attracted considerable attentions from policy makers as well as academia in Korea recently, however only a few empirical study has been conducted. In order to achieve the purpose, on-line administrative survey were applied to experts in tourism and international development cooperation field. The results were derived from analyzing a total of 24 data using the paired-sample t-test and IPA. The findings showed that ¡®Building communication channels between tourism and international development cooperation experts¡¯, ¡®Participating in global discussions of tourism/ODA related sectors¡¯, ¡®Tourism ODA professional training¡¯, and ¡®Tourism ODA awareness raising activities¡¯ were needed for promoting tourism ODA. Also, ¡®Consulting for tourism policy making and development planing¡¯, ¡®Support for building tourism promotion agencies¡¯, and ¡®Tourism manpower training program¡¯ were suggested comparative advantage tourism ODA programs in Korea. |