Abstract: Foreign desert tourism research develops early with wide research regions within United States, Egypt, Australia, Saudi Arabia and other countries. Research contents, methods and views value to conclude. About research content, foreign desert tourism research focuses on necessity and feasibility of tourism development, desert tourism evolution pattern, sustainable development and other core issues. About research method, foreign desert tourism research comprehensively uses typical case analysis, data modeling, contrast discussion to reveals the regularity of the desert tourism development. About views of research, sociology theory is used for questionnaire and interview, economical theory explains tourism product supply and demand, geomorphology and archaeology analyze resource value, climatic rules analyze passenger flow change, anthropology and ethnology are used for analyzing effect on local community from tourism. Foreign desert tourism research has important implications to domestic desert tourism research which is on its initial stage.