Along with the development of tourist industry, there comes a severe contradiction between the resource protection of scenic sites and the exploitation of tourism. The issue of environmental capacity of tourism is being given more and more concern and attention. This paper investigates, measures and analyzes the capacity of tourist and environmental capacity of Nanyue scenic sites, reveals their tourism potential and puts forward some countermeasures for resource protection and tourism control. In order to maintain an ecological balance of scenic sites and tourism quality, we make use of touri...