Chengde City,famous for its cultural sightseeing tourism industry,and is located in China’s“Capital Holiday Tourism Circle”.This location is advantageous,because of the recent boom in China’s national tourism industry.This industry has gone through several structural and development changes with in the past several years.A result of these restructuring patterns is the great changes concerning competitive and cooperative relations among tourism destinations,which have precipitated the decline of the traditional sightseeing pattern. Northern China’s“Capital Holiday Tourism Circle”is one of nine key areas within the Chinese tourism industry under development during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan.In the present article the method of“Distance Decline of The Tourist Flow”was used to define the flow of tourists in the Capital Holiday Tourism Circle and its influence upon Chengde’s tourism spatial distribution.3 aspects will be discussed:(1)The transformation from sightseeing to leisure markets makes the change possible in Chengde’s tourism spatial pattern.(2)The location advantage(adjacent to Beijing and Tianjin) also leads to the change in Chengde tourism spatial pattern.(3)The establishment of freeways also contributes to a great degrees of change. The rapid development of leisure tourism might lead to the change from nucleus model to a diversified one within Chengde’s tourism.Specifically,Chengde is developing the tourism industry with the central heritage area as the nucleus and the northern forest, pasture,southern mountain,and rivers as its periphery. Chengde City, famous for its cultural sightseeing tourism industry, and located in China’s “Capital Holiday Tourism Circle”. This location is advantageous, because of the recent boom in China’s national tourism industry. This industry has gone through several structural and development changes with in the past several years. A result of these restructuring patterns is the great changes concerning cooperation and cooperative relations among tourism destinations, which have precipitated the decline of the traditional sightseeing pattern. Northern China’s “Capital Holiday Tourism Circle” is one of nine key areas within the Chinese tourism industry under development the the Eleventh Five-Year Plan. the present article the method of “Distance Decline of The Tourist Flow” was used to define the flow of tourists in the Capital Holiday Tourism Circle and its influence upon Chengde’s tourism spatial distribution.3 aspects will be discussed: (1) The transformation from sightseeing to leisure mar kets makes the change possible in Chengde’s tourism spatial pattern. (2) The location advantage (adjacent to Beijing and Tianjin) also leads to the change in Chengde tourism spatial pattern. (3) The establishment of freeways also contributes to a great degree of change . The rapid development of leisure tourism might lead to the change from nucleus model to a diversified one within Chengde’s tourism. Specifically, Chengde is developing the tourism industry with the central heritage area as the nucleus and the northern forest, pasture, southern mountain, and rivers as its periphery.