According to the basic characteristics of the traditional villages in Yongzhou City,a tourism development proposed evaluation index system with 34 indicators was constructed from three aspects: Resource endowment,exploitation environment and market conditions. The results showed that:(1)The development potential of traditional village tourism in Yongzhou City could be divided into three levels: Strong,medium,weak.(2) The strong potential villages included Ganyantou Village,Baojing Village,Tanwenxi Village,Loutian Village,Zhetang Village ...