Tourist experience is an important branch of tourism theory and it has great significance to the development of high-quality tourism. In order to research the development process, hotspots and trends of tourist experience from multiple perspectives, the visual function of CiteSpace is used to systematically analyse the literature on tourist experience in the recent twenty years from CNKI Database . The results show that the number of literature on tourist experience in China shows a slow upward trend with strong interdisciplinary nature, but the proportion of high-quality published papers is small. The research hotspots mainly explore three research directions: the basic concept, the form of expression and the area of development on tourist experience. The frontier trend of tourist experience mainly focuses on four aspects: systematic theory, supply and demand for tourism, industrial development and policy concepts and methods of tourism research.The development of tourist experience in China should be deepened in four aspects in the future: building a theoretical system, deepening hot topics, broadening research perspectives and innovating research methods.