相对于西方人类学界对旅游的观照 ,我国的“旅游人类学”研究出现了明显的滞后性。旅游与人类学在某些方面表现出富有意义的相关性。对旅游人类学的研究对象、研究方法及研究任务进行了尝试性探讨 ,提出旅游人类学的研究对象应是旅游地居民、旅游开发者、旅游者、旅游地团体在旅游开发或旅游活动过程中所引起的经济、文化等方面的临时互动关系 ;并初步探索了人类学田野工作参与观察 ,即民族志研究方法在旅游领域中的具体应用问题。只有解决好开发与保护协调欠佳的问题 ,才能实现我国旅游业的可持续发展 Compared with western anthropology’s consideration of tourism, the study of “Tourism Anthropology” in our country shows obvious lag. Some aspects of tourism and anthropology show meaningful relevance. The research object, research methods and research tasks of tourism anthropology are tentatively discussed. The research object of tourism anthropology is that the research object of tourism anthropology should be that tourism residents, tourism developers, tourists and tourism destination groups should take part in tourism development or tourism activities Caused by the economic, cultural and other aspects of the temporary interaction; and tentatively explored anthropological fieldwork to participate in the observation that the ethnographic research methods in the field of tourism in the specific application issues. Only by solving the problem of poor coordination between development and protection can we achieve the sustainable development of tourism in our country