This study aims to summarize the characteristics of 3 types of inferior tourism regions,so as to contribute to the local tourism development and provide references for the tourism development of other inferior tourism regions.With Anhui Province as an example,this study classifies different types of inferior tourism regions,and figures out the definite counties (cities) to assess their richness of tourism resources and regional development levels by utilizing SPSS and fully analyzing the data after calculating the economic development levels of these counties (cities).For I-class inferior tourism regions,regional cooperation model and brand management model should be adopted to improve their competitiveness,for II-class inferior tourism regions,poverty alleviation model should be adopted and moderate development strategy for III-class inferior tourism regions.
