This article takes 338 star-level rural tourism destinations as samples,analyzes its characteristics and influence factors by GIS spatial analysis technology.The results showed that:1)The star-level rural tourism destinations is distributing in a con-densing type in Hunan Province.2)The star-level rural tourism destinations is distributed mainly over central and eastern Hu-nan province,especially in Changsha,Yiyang,Hengyang and Shaoyang.3)Influence factors of spatial distribution of the star-level rural tourism destinations mainly contain regional features of rural tourism,numbers of tourism s...