Abstract: In recent years, environmental problems caused by tourism activities have attracted more and more attention, and thus research on eco-compensation in tourism has been increased. As a systematic institutional arrangement, the main purpose of tourism eco-compensation is to protect the tourism ecosystems and to reconcile the contradiction between tourism development and ecological protection so as to promote the sustainable development of tourism. Therefore, the research on tourism eco-compensation has received attention. Here, we reviewed the related contents of eco-tourism compensation, including concept clarification, subjecobject definition, standard accounting and compensation approach, and expound the status of research in tourism eco-compensation. Meanwhile, we found out the problems of tourism eco-compensation in China by comparative analysis of domestic and foreign research status, to provide reference for perfecting China’s tourism eco-compensation theory and practice. Moreover, we proposed future directions that should be strenthened in tourism eco-compensation research, such as performance appraisal, spatial and temporal distribution, level division, and policy of tourism eco-compensation.

Key words: green inclusiveness, Super-SBM model, China., efficiency