Taking 31 cities in the middle reaches of the Changjiang River as the starting point,based on the connotation and development status of rural tourism,the three levels of resources,social economy,customer market and location were used to build a rural tourism competi-tiveness evaluation system,using the main components analytical methods and cluster analysis methods for research.The results showed that there were large differences in the development of rural tourism within the middle reaches of the Changjiang River.According to the level of de-velopment competitiveness,31 cities were divided in...