The development of tourism resources in the desert areas has experiencing the fastest growing forms of exploitation and utilization of resources in recent years. In this article, the author discussed from the perspective of the relationship between travel and the environment tourism, thus to analyze the desert tourism in Shapotou Desert as an example, to analyze the environmental impact of tourism resource development. And finally find that the desert Tourism resources, including the environmental impact of economic, social and ecological aspects, and all of them has both of positive and negative sides, and finally the author explores the method we need to use to make changes in the development of desert tourism and in order to have a sustainable development of the desert resources, some of the basic countermeasures should be taken into practice.