| With the fast development of rural tourism, the environmental protection of the rural tour gradually catches more and more attention. The more awareness is in the environmental protection in the rural tourism, the more sustainable of the rural tourism resources. But everything has exceptions. Some rural tourism places are short sighted for the present interests of the tour exploration, regardless the prospects of rural tourism in the future. What’s more, these places, environments degrading daily, don’t have good equipments and technologies to restore the environment. Therefore, more tourism resources will be destroyed in an unhealthy circle, impossible to restore, affecting the local life of the people, and the sustainable development of the rural tourism. The essay, taking Yuchuan Town in Wuxue city, Hubei province as an example, explores the environmental problems in the rural tourism, and the analysis of the causes and the effects of these problems, as well as the proposals in improving the environment in the rural tourism.The essay falls into six parts. The first elaborates the significance of the essay and the research background, summarizing the development of the rural tourism, the environmental protection, and the environmental bearing capability at home and abroad in the past, the researching method taken. The second stresses the basic concept of the rural tourism development, the actual condition of the rural tourism domestic and overseas, and the environmental protections in the rural tourism exploration. The third introduces the actual situation of the rural tourism in Yuchuan Town, investigating the concrete cases in the rural tourism development. The fourth analyzes the environmental problems in several aspects, and the fifth, proposals in improving the environments in the town for sustainable rural tourism in various aspects. The sixth summarizes the above five sections, and comes to the conclusion. |