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Tourism industry is an industry closely linked to geographical space. Studying the formation and evolution of tourism system that is within certain regional space and periodic features displayed in its structure and function, from the perspective of geography science, has an important role in promoting the development of regional tourism industry. Based on the definition of tourism regional system, the paper makes a systematic retrospect of the relevant literature about the evolution of tourism regional system both at home and abroad from the following aspects ; spatial distribution of tourist flow and concentration-diffusion effect, space structure, evolutional patterns and mechanism of tourism system. Defects existing in the present studies and study trend are put forward in the hope of providing some useful reference for the study of sustainable development of regional tourism [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]