Progress of China's Agro-tourism Research by CiteSpace

The base to do well on agro-tourism research is clearing the research status, research field, academic representatives, major research institutions, and the research trends We chose using the "China National Know ledge Infrastructure (CNKI) (2000 to 2014) "as searchable database and chose" agro-tourism","rural tourism","urban agriculture","sightseeing agriculture","creative agriculture "and" farm stay "as searchable keywords, retrieved 1298 articles. Through identifying and sorting, we arrived at finally got 1062 journal articles. Then Cite Space was used to analyze the knowledge maps of Research fields, authors, institutions, and journals, etc., and conduct a comprehensive review of research hot spot in the recent ten years. The results shows that the number of China's agro-tourism articles steady has increased in recent years, but combined with "rural tourism", "urban agriculture", "sightseeing agriculture", "creative agriculture" and "farm stay"; The main methods of clustering analysis, SWOT analysis, spatial econometric model, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Contingent Valuation Method (CVM), Travel Cost Method (TCM) etc.; The research field focus on regional agro-tourism, resource evaluation and development, tourist satisfaction, space layout; Guo Huancheng is the most prolific scholar in China's agro-tourism research, followed by Cai Jianming, Zhang Chen, Yu Jusheng, Fan Shuisheng etc.; Chinese Academy of Sciences is the most issued document institution, followed by the Najing Agricultural University, Huazhong Agricultural University, Sichuan University, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, etc., in addition, most the majority of institutions of China's agro-tourism research are study alone, in this field are solitary; The main authoritative journals just like Tourism Tribune, Journal of Agro technical Economics etc., mainly focused on economy, management and tourism, etc... This article showed an analysis provides a structural view of knowledge in the field of agro-tourism research from various angles perspective, which helped the researchers to find the status of agro-tourism research.