diff --git a/packages/openapi-v3/src/enhancers/index.ts b/packages/openapi-v3/src/enhancers/index.ts
index de19b5eb0a6c..0a3a29255b7f 100644
--- a/packages/openapi-v3/src/enhancers/index.ts
+++ b/packages/openapi-v3/src/enhancers/index.ts
@@ -8,4 +8,6 @@ export * from './default-deprecate-schema.enhancer';
 export * from './keys';
 export * from './prune-schema.enhancer';
 export * from './spec-enhancer.service';
+export * from './tags-schema.enhancer';
 export * from './types';
+
diff --git a/packages/openapi-v3/src/enhancers/tags-schema.enhancer.ts b/packages/openapi-v3/src/enhancers/tags-schema.enhancer.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..acd1751348cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/openapi-v3/src/enhancers/tags-schema.enhancer.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+import {bind} from '@loopback/core';
+import {OperationObject} from 'openapi3-ts';
+import {OpenApiSpec} from '../types';
+import {asSpecEnhancer, OASEnhancer} from './types';
+
+/**
+ * A spec enhancer to combine OperationObject Tags OpenApiSpec into spec.tags
+ *
+ */
+@bind(asSpecEnhancer)
+export class TagsEnhancer implements OASEnhancer {
+  name = 'tags';
+
+  modifySpec(spec: OpenApiSpec): OpenApiSpec {
+    try {
+      return this.tagsConsolidate(spec);
+    } catch {
+      console.log('Tags Enhancer failed, returned original spec.');
+      return spec;
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   *  Combine OperationObject Tags OpenApiSpec into spec.tags
+   *
+   */
+  private tagsConsolidate(spec: OpenApiSpec): OpenApiSpec {
+    Object.keys(spec.paths).forEach(path =>
+      Object.keys(spec.paths[path]).forEach(op => {
+        const OpObj = spec.paths[path][op] as OperationObject;
+        if (OpObj.tags) this.patchTags(OpObj.tags, spec);
+      }),
+    );
+
+    return spec;
+  }
+
+  // TODO(dougal83) desc. resolution
+  private patchTags(tags: Array<string>, spec: OpenApiSpec) {
+    if (!spec.tags) {
+      spec.tags = [];
+    }
+    tags.forEach(name => {
+      if (spec.tags!.findIndex(tag => tag.name === name) <= 0)
+        spec.tags!.push({name, description: ''});
+    });
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/rest/src/rest.server.ts b/packages/rest/src/rest.server.ts
index 09164a730d34..d2a1e0d9076e 100644
--- a/packages/rest/src/rest.server.ts
+++ b/packages/rest/src/rest.server.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import {
   OperationObject,
   PruneEnhancer,
   ServerObject,
+  TagsEnhancer,
 } from '@loopback/openapi-v3';
 import {AssertionError} from 'assert';
 import cors from 'cors';
@@ -723,6 +724,8 @@ export class RestServer extends Context implements Server, HttpServerLike {
     spec = consolidationEnhancer.modifySpec(spec);
     const pruneEnhancer = new PruneEnhancer();
     spec = pruneEnhancer.modifySpec(spec);
+    const tagsEnhancer = new TagsEnhancer();
+    spec = tagsEnhancer.modifySpec(spec);
     const defaultDeprecateEnhancer = new DefaultDeprecateEnhancer();
     spec = defaultDeprecateEnhancer.modifySpec(spec);