ABSTRACT

With the development of ecological tourism, the research on its classification and value plays an important role. Hubei owns as the “province of thousands of lakes” reputation, which means not only the broad wetland area, but also the rich ecological tourism resources. However, with the development of tourism in recent years, the wetland ecotourism resources development and utilization degree are relatively low. According to the resource properties, the classification of Hubei wetland ecological tourism resources are divided into natural wetland tourism resources and humanistic tourism resources, seven sub-types, and qualitative research methods are adopted to analyze those values. The results show that development and utilization of wetland ecological tourism resources in Hubei are prospect.