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This study has examined tourists' tourism addiction according to an increase of tourism demand and aims to probe the extent of perceived constraint depending on tourism addiction, assuming tourists' sensational seeking propensity(SSP) as the cause of tourism addiction. For this, a sample survey has been done aimed at 452 heavy tourists samples and the research hypothesis has been verified through reliability and validity test by utilizing SPSS ver.18.0. The implications of this study through relational analysis are as follows. First, this study has substantial implications in that it has focused on the condition of tourism addiction and systematized subordinate concepts to concretize it and has ultimately investigated the relationship between a major cause variable and a result variable. Second, SSP of individual perspective typifies the propensity of pursuing a new experience and enjoying tension and stimulus. Also, SSP is a major factor for the foundation of various research subjects related to individual addiction(alcohol, smoking, shopping, internet, sports, etc.) and its effect concerned with tourism addiction by positive experience has been substantiated. Lastly, at the transition for the rapidly changing tourism development such as tourism culture development, the support of related industries and the diversification of available resource, the constraint that contemporaries as tourists perceive is not a simply matter originating from utilization or treatment of individual resource or in situation, but it has verified that meta needs such as addition should be satisfied in the process of gratifying desires.