The Yangtze River Economic Zone spans the eastern，Western and central regions of China，and is also one of the regions with the strongest comprehensive strength and greatest strategic support for China’s tourism industry. The joint construction of the “Yangtze River International Golden Tourism Zone” has become a breakthrough and an important starting point to promote the major strategy of the Yangtze River Economic Zone. After years of development，the tourism industry of the 11 provinces and cities in the Yangtze River Economic Zone has carried out long-term cooperation in resource development，industrial upgrading，transformation and upgrading. But at the same time，the level of tourism development among regions is still different，and there are still barriers in the process of regional cooperation. Combined with the outbreak era the new trend of development of the tourism industry，especially rural tourism and red tourism，this paper made an analysis about the present situation of tourism development along the Yangtze River Economic Zone. On this basis，combined with the current new demand of tourism development，this paper puts forward corresponding suggestions on how to develop the domestic tourism market，further enrich the rural tourism formats of the Yangtze River Economic Zone and promote the regional red tourism brand.