From the view of geography, folklore is a component of
cultural landscape and human tourist resource. It seems that assessment
of influence of folklore to tourist resources and its practical value in tourist industry as well as related evaluation (continued from page 24)method still remain uncompleted so far. In this paper, folklores were calssified into six types named as belief folklore, social folklore, life hood folklore, economical folklore, tales & folk songs, and sport &
entertainment folklore, while the economical folklore, tales & folk songs, and sport & entertainment folklore, while the folklore tourist attractions were classified into five groups named as watching. paticipating, experiencing, deep and assisting ones. The relationships between folklore and human landscape and between folklore and natural landscape were detailed discussed. With humantistic geographical concept of ‘place’, the role played by folklore in the fomation of impression and identity of tourist destination was specially elusidated and analysed. It is shown that folklore tourist attractions of both Tibetan nationlity of Jiuzhaigou District and traditional Wu culture in Jiangsu Province have got their own systems of types and related traits as well as developing way. With comparison of both folklore tourist attractions, it is suggested that the origin of traits of regional folklore tourist attractions be closely related to local environmental backgrounds of both physical geography and cultural geography.