Abstract: According to the national standards of tourism classification, the Analytic Hierarchy Process （AHP）is used to establish the evaluation index system to determine the weight value of each indicator and comprehensively evaluate the rural tourism resources around Chaohu Lake. The nearest neighbor index, standard deviation ellipse and buffer analysis are used to carry out spatial distribution characteristics research from the aspects of distribution type, direction, and distance. The results show that the diversified types of rural tourism resources around Chaohu Lake have obvious effects, and the combination is in good condition, but most of the resources are of low grade,with average appearance, low visibility and influence, and lacking market attractiveness; rural tourism resources are unevenly agglomerated. The spatial distribution of rural tourism resources is unbalanced and concentrated along the northeast-southwest direction, and clusters along the main roads, with significant traffic dependence. At present, the development of rural tourism around Chaohu Lake is in its infancy, lacking a "connotative" development plan, and no tourism synergy has been formed. From the perspective of global tourism, combined with the current development of rural tourism around Chaohu Lake, we propose a new rural tourism space pattern of "one lake, one corridor, three cities and four districts", and strive to create a rural tourism circle around Chaohu Lake. The purpose is to promote the establishment of the tourism destination and realize the strategic goal of Rural Revitalization.

Key words: global tourism, rural tourism, Analytic Hierarchy Process, around Chaohu Lake