Abstract: This article takes photos released by tourists from the social media website of Flickr, Tripadvisor, 500px, and Mafengwo of Xixi Wetland as the research sample,and using grounded-theory image analysis coding method to represent the tourists’ landscape preference of Xixi Wetland from the landscape preference categories and specific landscape elements. With regard to the landscape preference categories, tourists prefer water landscape, architectural landscape, vegetation landscape, tour facilities and park road landscape.In terms of the specific landscape elements, the main landscape elements preferred by tourists are green, transparent, rich landscape, large visible area, winding water body, natural material and elegant garden building, colorful flowers, well-organized boat route of landscape space sequence, and natural and winding garden road. For the wetland landscape, we can start with the elements of the water body, architecture, vegetation, tourist facilities and park road to improve the naturalness, openness, mystery of the overall landscape and the rhythm, spatial contrast, and artistic conception of the tour route to increase its aesthetic value.