Tourism industry is an important part of the urban economy,The level of its competitiveness directly affects the growth potential of the city,especially under the background of regional economic integration in Yangtze River Delta. In this context,this paper puts forward six factors of tourism industry competition: tourism market,resource abundance,infrastructure,auxiliary industry,industrial innovation and urban economy,and establishes a urban tourism competitiveness evaluation index system of 28 indicators. According to the panel data of 16 cities in the Yangtze River Delta,the AHP and BP neural network model were used to evaluate the competitiveness of the urban tourism industry respectively. The competitiveness of the city tourism industry is divided into three levels in the Yangtze River Delta based on the comprehensive evaluation. This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of the urban tourism industry competitiveness and the advantages and disadvantages of each city,and points out that cities in the Yangtze River Delta should improve the competitive disadvantage and establish the cooperation mechanism,to achieve competition-cooperation development.