In this paper, 1 183 literature related to agricultural tourism in CNKI were used as the original data, CiteSpace visualization software was used to draw the corresponding map of scientific knowledge. This article has beenwritten from five aspects: the paper publishing institution, the keywords half-life, the research hotspots and the re-search frontier analysis. From the perspective of publishing institutions, the research of established strong universi-ties lasts longer, and the research institutions are dominated by undergraduate universities and gradually spread.Keywords research can be divided into three exploration stages: rise, acceleration and stability. Literature researchon half-life can be divided into three periods: 1994-1999, 2000-2009 and 2010 up to now. From the perspective ofresearch hotspots, rural tourism, leisure agriculture, agricultural tourism, tourism agriculture, sustainable develop-ment and other key research areas have always been implemented in the whole process of agricultural tourism re-search and development; From the perspective of research frontier, the research topic of agricultural tourism can bedivided into three stages according to time: the combination development of tourism and agricultural industry before 2003, the exploration of problems and countermeasures in the development of agricultural tourism from 2003 to 2008, and the industrial integration exploration of "agriculture+" mode from 2009 to now. On the basis of summariz-ing and combining the research contents, this paper gives some suggestions for the development of agricultural tour-ism in the future.