中文摘要：

旅游创新作为一个全新的研究领域起源于20世纪90年代。近年来，面对国际旅游业发展所面临的诸多挑战，旅游创新作为解决旅游业发展问题的有效途径和加速旅游产业发展的重要动力，逐渐进入了旅游研究者的视野。文章运用内容分析法对国外自上世纪90年代以来的旅游创新文献进行了综述，分别从旅游创新的特性、旅游创新的机理和旅游创新的管理3个维度进行梳理与评述，并分析了未来的研究方向，以期为国内相关研究提供启示和理论参考。

英文摘要：

Tourism innovation, as a new area of contemporary tourism research, has aroused worldwide concerns since the 1990s. In recent years, confronting with various challenges in international tourism development, tourism innovation, as an effective way of solving the problems and an important driving force of the development in tourism industry, has gradually came into the view of tourism researchers. This paper adopts content analysis method to sum up and comment tourism innovation studies abroad from three dimensions respectively ： the characteristics of tourism innovation, tourism innovation mechanism and tourism innovation management. In addition, it also makes an analysis and forecast of future research directions regarding to tourism innovation. Based on the review, the authors previde with some research implications and theoretical reference.