Abstract:

With the rapid development of economic globalization and regional integration,studying the Shanghai urban tourism under the background of the Yangtze River Delta and exploring the interaction between urban tourism and regional tourism will exert head and demonstration effects on further investigation.By analyzing the challenges Shanghai urban tourism faced,the scale and structure of the tourism cities system in the Yangtze River Delta,and surveying the degree of spatial discrimination and connection degree of tourism economy of these cities,the author assumes that the interaction between Shanghai urban tourism and tourism of the Yangtze River Delta should take the following steps to promote the interactive development: firstly,setting up the network of the core cities (Shanghai,Nanjing and Hangzhou);secondly,establishing a great tourism system of the Yangtze River Delta by networking industry,market,organization,service and the other subnets;finally,building a tourism regional complex which includes Shanghai urban tourism and regional tourism of the Yangtze River Delta.

Key words: urban tourism, regional tourism, interactive development, Shanghai, the Yangtze River Delta