Abstract: Residents’ attitude is a very important field in tourism geography, especially in the initial stage of tourism development, the cognition, perception, and attitude of residents have a significant influnce on tourism development. Linpu, in Fujian province, which is a cultural and historical village in initial tourism development was chosen as a case. The author invesitgated 300 local residents by questionnaire. Based on the theory such as place attachment, sustainable development, residents participation, social exchange, this paper chooses five structural variables (residents’ valuation of tourism potential development , sense of place, positive perceived tourism impacts, negative perceived tourism impacts, and residents’ support) to construct a structural equuation model(SEM), to reflecting the influnce factors impacts on the residents’ support for tourism development, the research conclusions are as follows : (1) residents’ valuation of tourism potential development had a positive influnce on residents’ positive perceived tourism impacts and enhanced their support of tourism development, as the same time, it weaken the negative perceived impact and suspicion of residents. (2) the positive perceived impact of residents had a positive influnce on residents’ support of tourism development, and the negative perceived impact had an opposite effect. (3) residents’ valuation of tourism potential development and residents’ sense of place interacted and affect each other positivly, residents’ sense of place can improved residents’ support of tourism development, but its impact on esidents’ perceived tourism impacts (positve and negative) was not significant.