Abstract: Countryside tourism, leisure farming, ecological tourism, and other forms of tourism planning have stealthily entered into China. The development of tourism planning, including its origin, growing course, status, problems and future are discussed. It has been pointed out that the tourism planning will develop towards integrated planning, social practice,systems optimization and sustainable development as well.  AbstractFilter('EnChDivSummary','ChDivSummaryMore2','ChDivSummaryReset2');

Key words: tourism, planning, sustainable development