中文摘要：

城市已成为当今最具吸引力的旅游目的地和客源地之一，对于城市旅游的研究日渐引起旅游和城市研究者们的重视。通过检索相关刊物1995-2005年期刊，同时参考相关专著，从研究内容和研究方法两个方面分别进行分析，认为城市旅游的影响、旅游产品、需求与供给、市场与形象是当前城市旅游研究的主要内容，研究方法主要表现为结合具体案例地的描述性分析和简单的统计分析，宏观地反映了近10年来国外城市旅游研究的现状。最后提出了城市旅游研究的未来趋势。

英文摘要：

Cities are the most popular tourism destinations and resources in the world. As a new field, urban tourism attracts more tourist and urban researchers to focus on it. On the basis of the recent ten years＇ magazines on tourism and urban abroad, the paper tries to analyses the literature of urban tourism. The results are presented： the study of influences, products, supply and demand, marketing and image are the main contents; and the main methods used in the literature are most descriptive, lack in exhaustive surveys. Finally, the paper points out the prospect of urban tourism research.