As the center of gravity of the international cruise market shifts to the Asia-Pacific region, especially the Chinese market,China has quickly entered the golden period of cruise tourism development because it has high economic benefits and remarkable pulling effect on the industry.However,domestic academic research on cruise tourism has just started,research breadth and depth is insufficient.CiteSpace is used to sort out the journal papers on cruise tourism in China published in CNKI from 2003 to 2020.Through the analysis of the amount of published articles, high-frequency keywords, core authors, publishing institutions, publishing journals,the development of cruise tourism research in China in recent years is summarized ,and the future trend and research hotspots of cruise tourism research in China is analyzed.