生态旅游是以观赏和感受生态环境、普及生态知识、维护生态平衡为目的的旅游方式，这正成为全球旅游业发展的潮流。青海生态旅游资源丰富，发展生态旅游产业潜力巨大，当前在西部大开发中，青海要把旅游业作为２１世纪的支柱产业，并建成一个旅游大省，必将能推动青海经济快速 Ecotourism is a kind of tourism mode that aims to watch and feel the ecological environment, popularize ecological knowledge and maintain ecological balance. This is becoming the trend of global tourism development. Qinghai is rich in ecotourism resources and has great potential for developing ecotourism industry. At present, in developing the western region, Qinghai should make tourism a pillar industry in the 21st century and become a major tourism province, which will surely promote the rapid economic development of Qinghai