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The purpose of this study is to investigate the students' perception and their satisfaction of Tourism English class. The objective of this study is to suggest how to improve the students' satisfaction by examining their perception of the general status of Tourism English class. The participants in this survey were 212 students who took Tourism English class last semester and the questionnaire consisted of 35 items concerning the students' perception and satisfaction. The study results are as follows: First, the class size should be reduced for the effective education. Second, the professors should develop a variety of teaching methods and improve the interaction skill to raise the students' interests. Third, there were some differences of students' satisfaction between 2-year-college and 4-year-university. The 2-year-college students showed higher satisfaction than 4-year-university students regarding the class management, the faculty, the classroom environment and general tourism english class.