中文摘要：

红色旅游历经过十几年的发展，在为我国政治和经济发展做出巨大贡献的同时，形成了大量研究成果。通过对以往红色旅游研究的梳理、评述，明确了红色旅游定义，辨析了与红色旅游相似的共产主义遗迹旅游和黑色旅游概念；指出红色旅游资源兼具政治、经济和社会三种属性，红色旅游资源的评价与开发应树立可持续发展观念；发现红色旅游既有经济效应，又有社会效应；提出红色旅游市场开发需要与时俱进，推动游客市场创新，并给出了我国红色旅游未来研究方向。

英文摘要：

The red tourism developed during more than ten years, which made a great contribution to our country＇s political propaganda and eco- nomic development, and formed a large number of research results. This paper reviewed the previous literatures on red tourism, defining concept of red tourism, and comparing with the concepts of communist relic tourism and black tourism. Red tourism resources had political, economic and social as- pects. Red tourism had economic and societal functions. Red tourism market needed to keep pace with the times and promote the innovation of tourist market. Finally, the research trend of red tourism in China was put forward.