A Review of Foreign Studies on Tourist Destination:Based on the Subscribed Articles of Tourism Management in the last 10 Years

In order to have a clear view of the achievements and trends of foreign studies on tourist destinations, the author searched 32 related papers, in the last 10 years, except the records of meetings and book reviews, subscribed, to Tourism Management, a Journal that is well known in the foreign tourism academe. The paper studied the quantity of papers in different years and the sources of the authors. It analyzed the main contents of these literatures, including the concept of tourist destination, tourist destination image, management and development of tourist destination, relationships between tourist destination and the coal residents, and between tourists, as well. It concluded to prospect the trends of tourist destination studies.