Abstract: Shitouzhai Village, a tourist village, adjacent to the Huangguoshu waterfall scenic spot, is taken as a typical case. Spatial analysis and participatory evaluation method are applied to analyze the change rules of land use pattern in Shitouzhai village in the past 34 years, by using the status quo of settlement land and multitemporal remote sensing image data. The results are shown as follows： (1)There are three stages of the land use pattern evaluation, including the slow start stage, the accelerated expansion stage and the expansion decline stage. Land use realizes the process of spatial expansion from the core to the periphery, as well as from the plane to the spatial scale. In spatial scale, there is a significant expansion pattern along the river and road. (2)“Tourization process” prompts the transition of the function of rural settlements in Shitouzhai Village. In this rural area, the proportion of residential land is reduced, while the proportion of nonresidential land such as tourism accommodation, tourism catering and tourism services is increased. The function of rural settlements changes from single living function to compound function, including living, leisure and tourism. (3) Main factors, including the village’s natural geographical conditions, tourism resource development, Huangguoshu waterfall scenic spot tourism market demand and the government’s progressive regulation, have contributed to these changes in different stages. At present, Shitouzhai Village has entered into a stage of transformation and upgrading orientation by the development of characteristic tourism. For its rural tourism development, the original land use patterns are not sustainable. Therefore, in order to promote the sustainable development of rural tourism, the planning and design and the construction management of the usage of rural land must be strengthened and the supporting institutional system must be improved, by considering the characteristics and requirements of rural settlement land for tourism and the existing rural settlement tourism land demand as well.