Rural tourism is one of the most popular tourism forms abroad,the corresponding research results and progress also reflects the orientation of the rural tourism study.Foreign rural tourism research basely concentrated in the rural tourism related concepts;the relationship between rural tourism and agriculture;the rural tourism development backgrounds;the impacts of rural tourism;the operational mechanism of rural tourism;the problems and strategies of rural tourism development;the planning、organizing and policy of rural tourism,and so on.Foreign rural tourism research characterized by the abundant research content,the advanced means and methods,the binary nature of regional study scale,normative policy guidance identity.