This article discusses research on halal tourism with the aim of providing additional references to the understanding of research that has been done in the field of halal tourism. Method that used in this research is systemic literature review. On the planning stage, the formulation on the review’s research question is made to lead the process of literatures searching. Next on the conducting stage, identification of relevant literatures is carried out. In this stage, 32 articles are identified and can be referred. Reporting stage covers the activity of writing up the paper, reviewing, classification, result and discussion and eventually withdrawing the conclusion. Based on the results and discussion taken it can be concluded that halal tourism research can be grouped into four classifications namely halal essence studies in the field of halal tourism, the relationship of halal culinary and halal tourism, the development of halal tourism, and halal tourism strategies. The most researched topic is about the study of halal essence in halal tourism. This literature review is expected to support other researchers in performing future researches. Suggestion for next research, among others, is research challenges based on issues classification as described in this article.