文化遗产旅游是国外旅游研究的热点领域之一。为了掌握国外近十年的研究动态与趋势,本文通过检索2001-2010年期间国际公认的两大旅游研究权威期刊《Annals of Tourism Research》与《Tourism Management》上发表的文化遗产旅游的相关文献,分别从文化遗产旅游者研究、文化遗产旅游目的地研究、文化遗产旅游开发与管理研究、文化遗产旅游解说与原真性研究四方面进行了分类与述评,发现国外近十年来主要集中于原真性与旅游者研究,普遍采用案例研究与模型构建,注重定性研究与定量研究相结合,多学科渗透与融合趋势明显;认为未来的工作应在坚持文化遗产旅游可持续发展的同时融合绿色理念与低碳发展观,注重实践基础之上的理论创新,并加强对濒危文化遗产的研究。

Cultural heritage tourism is a hotspot of tourism research abroad. In order to grasp the research trends abroad in the last decade, the author sort out a total of 49 articles about cultural heritage tourism by retrieving the two internationally authoritative journal of tourism research issue of Annals of Tourism Research and Tourism Management during the years 2001-2010. Then, these articles have been classified and reviewed from four research perspectives, namely, cultural heritage tourists, cultural heritage tourism destination, cultural heritage tourism development and management, cultural heritage tourism interpretation and the authenticity. It has been concluded that these researches mainly focus on the authenticity and the tourists research, and emphasized the field of community participation and stakeholder recently; the authors are mostly from Europe, North America and Australia, the few ones from Chinese mainland, this phenomenon is of course related to these two periodicals editing and publishing in Anglo-American but it is also an indisputable fact that existing the gap of the academic standards between the Chinese researchers and their foreign counterparts;the part of Chinese mainland scholars research results were published show that China's tourism academic research has been recognized by international peers, in such literature has been published mostly co-signed by the domestic and foreign scholars to explain that Chinese tourism circles are strengthening academic exchanges with foreign.