In the urban tourist resource collaborative development in the Yangtze River Delta,the main principles include:across-regional integrative development,mutual advantage complementary,sharing the haves and haves-not,timely and broadly layout,and eco-environmental protecting,tourist resource regional development,etc.

The paper analyses urban tourism resources development principles, probes into market demand-oriented urban tourism resources development model and suggests an obscure comprehensive multilevel evaluation model of urban tourism resources be set up.

In recent years, a great progress in Chinese tourism, especially in city tourism has been made, and it is necessary to continuously raise the value of city tourism resources and have our own features to advance the development of international and domestic t.