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This study focused on the studies on festivals among the studies published over the past 5
years from 2010 till 2014 in two widely cited domestic journals specializing in tourism, 'The
Journal of Tourism Science' and 'The Journal of Tourism Management Research', and analyzed
44 papers in total which had the term 'festival' in their titles and sub-titles. The analysis showed
that, first, 24 festival-related articles had been published in 'The Journal of Tourism Science' and
20 articles in 'The Journal of Tourism Management Research' over the past 5 years, and the
number of festival-related articles showed similar increasing and decreasing trends over the
years. Second, the analysis of the studies published in both journals in terms of their
methodologies showed that the portion of quantitative approaches was overwhelmingly larger
than qualitative ones, and for analysis method, they used regression analysis the most followed
by structure equation modeling analysis. Third, the analysis result in terms of study subject, the
biggest number was for the studies on the tourists over the past five years, followed by local
residents and festival experts. Based on these study results, this study provides implications and
directions for future research.