The full Implementation of the strategic plan of speeding up the reform of ecological civilization system, promoting green development and building a beautiful China put forward in the report of the Nineteenth National Congress provides a significant opportunity for tourism development. This paper, taking China's excellent tourism city, Handan, as an example, explores the way to further tap the connotation of water civilization and unremittingly improve the construction of water eco-civilization, so as to prosper rural tourism development in Handan.