Abstract: This paper studies and analyses the tourism ecological footprint in Wulingyuan by the theories and methods of ecological footprint. The result shows that they are made of tourism shopping,tourist,tourism accommodation,tourism solid waste,tourism water supply,tourism traffic and tourism catering.Among them tourism shopping,tourism accommodation,tourism catering account for 96.40% to 96.53%,and the others just account for 3.47% to 3.60%. The tourism ecological footprints in Wulingyuan increase constantly,the annual average growth rate of them is ranked as following: tourism catering>tourism water supply>tourist accommodation> tourist traffic>tourist solid waste>tourism shopping. The variation tendency of tourism ecological footprint in Wulingyuan is controlled by that of tourism shopping,tourism accommodation and tourism catering.The tourism ecological footprint in Wulingyuan is transformed into the ecological productive land,among which farmland,forest land,lawn and waters are produced by tourism shopping and tourism catering. Fossil energy land is caused by the energy consumption of water,coal and gasoline (diesel) for tourism solid waste,tourism traffic,tourism accommodation and tourism catering. Construction land is made of tourism traffic highway,gross area of tourism hotels,tourism scenic area.95% of the ecological footprint of tourism catering in Zhangjiajie belongs to transferable ecological footprint,the remaining 5% of the ecological footprint and the other ecological footprint are not transferable ecological footprint.

Key words: ecological footprint, tourism, ecological productive land, Wulingyuan