中文摘要：

在旅游业迅猛发展的今天，随着个性化旅游和自助旅游的兴起，背包旅游以其独特优势掀起了全球游牧的热潮。近年来受到学界和业界的广泛关注．回顾了20世纪70年代以来国内外背包旅游研究的主要内容及进展，通过对国内外相关研究在研究理论、研究内容、研究方法等方面的对比分析，指出目前国内研究存在的问题和不足以及未来进一步研究的方向．

英文摘要：

For the rapid development of tourism industry today, with the rise of personalized travel and independent travel, backpack travel with its unique advantages set off an upsurge of global nomadism. In recent years, the backpack tourism has also become a focus of the academy and the related industries. This paper aims to review the content and the progress of backpack tourism at home and abroad since 1970s. Then the paper also compares the similarities and differences of domestic and foreign research of backpack tourism on basic theory, research contents and research methods. In the end, according to the problems and shortcomings above, the paper points out the direction for future studies.