Abstract:Under the background of the current rural revitalization strategy, an organical integration of rural natural resources with human resources requires us to fully understand the distribution pattern of forest villages. Therefore, based on ArcGIS10.5 and Photoshop 2018 tools, we collect the spatial geographic coordinates and related socioeconomic and cultural data of the national forest villages in Hubei Province to analyze their spatial distribution. The tourism location theory and rural revitalization planning are incorporated with relevant information to conduct an inquiry into and type characteristics and analyze their spatial distribution. The results show that the distribution of forest villages in Hubei Province is concentrated in five massive aggregation areas, with uneven spatial distribution, mainly restricted to Enshi, Shiyan, Yichang, Huanggang, Xianning, and Xiangyang. Based on spatial distribution, the forest villages are divided into landscape-dependent type, traffic-driven type, town-dependent type, regional-cultural type, and industrial-integrated type. Each type of forest village has its own unique development mode, which meets the specific requirements of rural revitalization and also provides case reference for other natural villages in Hubei Province.