With the continuous development of tourism and the urbanization process, tourism urbanization which has important research value is an inevitable phenomenon and also the carrier and the basis of the new type of urbanization. At present,the theoretical system of tourism urbanization in China is still in construction and lags behind the practical research, the research area of which is fragmented. From four aspects , such as concept connotation , development pattern, dynamic mechanism and problem countermeasures of tourism urbaniza-tion and so on, this paper reviews the research achievements of ...