Abstract: As an important material and cultural carrier of traditional villages, vernacular landscape is facing double challenges of vernacular features destruction and vernacular culture loss under the impact of tourism commercial development. Through the analysis of the value elements of the traditional village landscape, this paper reveals the significance of the protection of the rural landscape to the development of traditional villages. On the basis of establishing the mechanism of mutual promotion between cultural tourism and vernacular landscape, this paper puts forward the strategies of protecting local landscape for cultural tourism from three aspects: space integration, cultural heritage and seasonal protection. Taking Yongfeng Village in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province as an empirical case, this paper carries out local landscape design from macro, meso and micro levels. The mutual validation of theory and practice shows that the protection of local landscape can effectively promote the cultural tourism of traditional villages, and then can realize the purpose of the living protection of traditional villages.