This paper holds that the classification,investigation and evaluation of tourism resources now actually used in China are only suitable for classification and evaluation of sightseeing tourism resources but not for holiday tourism resources.

The authors make a comparative study of such targets as environmental pollution,the number of tourists,the number of travel agencies and staff,the level of city establishment, GDP, inhabitant consumption, the density of travel resources of the western regions, and provide the prospect and development model.

The six rules are: protecting the natural environment, strengthening destination promotion, changing the governmental function, developing sightseeing tourism and holiday tourism simultanously, developing holiday tourism beyond the existing distribution of .