中文摘要：

探亲访友旅游是全球旅游市场中一个非常重要且潜力巨大的细分市场之一，亦已成为西方旅游学术界的研究焦点之一，但目前国内旅游学界、政界与业界对该市场的重视明显不足。因此，文章对1990—2015年期间的国外有关探亲访友旅游的研究成果进行收集与归纳，重点对探亲访友旅游研究脉络、市场细分及其差异、旅游者时空行为、主客关系及其作用、移民联系等方面取得的研究内容进行回顾，指出未来该领域可拓展的研究方向及其对国内相关研究的启示。

英文摘要：

Visiting friend and relative(VFR)tourism is one of the most important and the most potentialsegmentations among the global tourist markets,and has been one of the research focuses in the western tourismacademic circle.However,this market has been attached little attention by Chinese scholars as well as tourismpractitioners.Accordingly,this paper,based on the collection and summary the current research results relevant to VFRtourism published from1990to2015at abroad,on one hand,looked back emphatically at such research content as thevenation of research advance,market segmentations and their disparities,time-spatial behavior of VFR tourist,host&visitor relationship and its roles in some socio-economic aspects,as well as migration linkage;on the other hand,pointed out the direction on further study of VFR tourism and the enlightenment to the China’s domestic research.Theauthors wish this paper would offer the theory and practice reference to the further understand on the value of ChineseVFR market and to its expansion.