The tourism authenticity is not only closely related to tourist motivation, experiencing quality, but more importantly, provides a solid theoretical foundation for destination original culture protection, tourism resources conservation and society structure change and so on. Therefore, tourism authenticity research is of great theoretical value and practical significance. By conducting a systemic literature review about domestic tourism authenticity research in last two decades, this paper firstly introduced two concepts of “authenticity” and “tourism authenticity”, then reviewed current research in terms of theoretical research and practical research, based on the analysis of present research achievements, pointed out current shortcomings, and finally prospected the future research trend, which provided the reference for domestic research in this field.