Abstract:Abstract: In the context of the rapid development of tourism, tourism in ancient towns is considered to be an emerging tourism industry. A comprehensive understanding of tourists' recreational experience and experience satisfaction in the ancient towns is an important way to promote the high-quality development of ancient town tourism. Taking Huotong Ancient Town in Ningde City as the research object, using questionnaire survey, Kernel Density Estimation method(KDE),IPA analysis method and other methods to analyze tourists' recreational experience and satisfaction perception of Huotong Ancient Town. The study found that tourists formed a concentrated experience area with high importance, high satisfaction and high density distribution in Xiajie of the ancient town. But at the same time, there is a certain difference between the overall expectations of tourists and actual experience satisfaction, and the distribution of recreational experience is uneven. On the one hand, the reason is the imperfect infrastructure and services of the ancient town; on the other hand, the historical and cultural value contained in the ancient town has not been fully and effectively disseminated and the resources have not been fully utilized. Addressing existing problems in the ancient town, comprehensively investigate the development status of the ancient town of Huotong, and provide specific strategies for promoting the tourism development of the ancient town.