Basic attributes of landscape appreciation were summarized as interaction between appreciation subjects and objects,cultural identity and stability,symbolic meaning,preference of subjects,and unification of subjective and objective structures.On this basis,hierarchy and prefe-rence of tourist landscape appreciation were analyzed,classification of cultural groups and their cultural rules would promote landscape appreciation researches,while heterogeneous cultures of tourist landscapes were motives of tourist landscape appreciation,and structural optimization of tourist landscape appreciation would improve the quality of tourist landscape appreciation.Structure of tourist landscape appreciation was discussed according to aesthetic characteristics of tourist landscapes,and three dimensions were included in the structure:"space-scale","time-history" and "mechanism-function".Guided by structuralism aesthetics,planning principles of tourist landscapes were proposed from the perspectives of dimension structure and cultural preference,aesthetic standard of the public and market orientation,symbolism and cultural value.