Abstract: Tourism and globalization is an important issue in the field of globalization, which is a vital condition and an important way to speed up the integration of global tourism. There is a close relationship between them. Scholars all over the world have paid much attention to the study of tourism and globalization for a long time. In the opening and development of the new era of China, the study of tourism and globalization has new practical significance and characteristic. Based on this, the paper analyzes research trends and hot topics on tourism and globalization from 1990 to 2016 by the data method of CiteSpace. Besides, the paper reviews literatures both here and abroad in terms of developing process, key factors and main effects in studies on tourism and globalization. The research shows that there are differences in research theme, content and subject in the study of tourism and globalization at home and abroad. The globalization of tourism development has experienced the scale conversion process of local-regional-international. Meanwhile, tourism and globalization mainly focuses on the motivation of technology, market, policy and effects of economy, culture, environment. The results indicate that literatures at home and abroad has both the common, different characteristics and some shortcomings in the research contents, methods and perspectives. In order to promote tourism and globalization with the times, the research should be deepened and expanded from the strategic needs of the service countries, the construction of the research theory system, the development of the research method system, the grasp of the new trend and the new sources of research data in the future, to provide more powerful guidance for the development of tourism and globalization.