Abstract: No matter in the West or in China, the original often ignore community participation in tourism development, which makes the tourism development away from community and local people, so that it creates a lot of problems. Community participation in tourism is regarded as one of the most effective ways to achieve sustainable development of tourism, and also a hot and important field in tourism research. The author made a systemic summary about progresses of community participation to tourism development study at home and abroad over the past ten years .The foreign scholars mainly studied four fields, including to investigate the role of community participation in tourism, factors and mechanism of influencing community participation, evaluation of the degree of community involvement, sustainable development and community participation. The domestic research can be divided into four fields, including studying on the related concepts and supporting theory of community participation in tourism, studying on the model of community participation in tourism, studying on problems and countermeasures of community participation in tourism development, and studying on hot region. Summarizing and comparing related research at home and abroad, found research by qualitative research methods gradually to a combination of qualitative and quantitative, "questions, case study, model calculation, the results analysis" is the general model of the community participation in tourism research. The author also found the sustainable development and increases the power of community research had been focus on many scholar, and so was the harmonious relation between stakeholders. Last, the author gave three suggestions for community participation in tourism research in China，which were case analysis and empirical study should be much accounted of domestic scholars, expanding the research field, and trying to track the dynamic research.

摘要： 社区参与旅游被认为是实现旅游可持续发展的有效途径，也是旅游研究中的热点和前沿领域。文章对近十年国内外社区参与旅游研究进展作较系统的总结，国外学者主要从社区参与旅游作用的探讨、影响社区参与的因素及其机制、社区参与效果评价、可持续发展与社区参与四个领域展开研究，而国内研究内容则主要概括为社区参与旅游的相关概念及理论基础研究、社区参与旅游的模式研究、社区参与旅游发展中的问题和对策研究、热点区域研究四个方面。将国内外相关研究进行总结和对比，概括为四个结论并提出三点建议，建议今后国内学者还应重视案例分析和实证研究，扩大研究领域，并尝试进行追踪动态研究。