Abstract: Ecotourism is considered as one of the choices for achieving the sustainable development of tourism industry at present.Based on the analysis of the connotation,planning and exploitation of ecotourism,this paper analyzes a number of problems in the development of ecotourism in forest nature reserves in China,such as the existing abuses of ecotourism labels,unreasonable planning and low participation of community residents,etc.corresponding strategies were put forward as follows:1)to straighten out the concept and connotation of forest ecotourism;2)to discuss the biodiversity index for the quantitative calculation of the feasibility of ecotourism development,and to plan ecotourism area scientifically;3)to build the mechanism of management system,and to promote the local economy and 4)to improve the certification system of ecotourism,and to assess the environmental impact and to use the remote sensing images for natural resource audit at regular intervals.

Key words: eecotourism, forest, nature reserve, biodiversity, remote sensing monitoring