上海提出2015年建成世界著名旅游城市。世界著名旅游城市具有旅游业成为国民经济的重要支柱、旅游功能区空间布局明确、政府重视城市形象定位等特点。本文尝试对国外世界著名旅游城市的发展模式进行比较,分析其发展驱动模式、空间布局、旅游城市品牌形象等方面,为上海建设世界著名旅游城市提供参考。研究表明,从发展驱动模式看,纽约聚焦经济驱动旅游高度发展、伦敦着力资源驱动城市和旅游协调发展、东京立足观光立国驱动旅游和城市协调发展;从空间布局看,纽约为多节点型、伦敦呈现为多节点型——点轴型、东京则为多核集中型;从旅游城市品牌形象看,纽约以文化功能型定位成就21世纪第一个可持续性城市、伦敦以资源主导型定位延续历史文化名城、东京为功能复合型定位模式打造具有活力与风格的世界都市。 Shanghai proposed that 2015 be built into a world famous tourist city. The world famous tourist city has become an important pillar of the national economy, the spatial distribution of tourism functional areas is clear, and the government attaches importance to the image of the city. This article attempts to compare the development modes of the world famous tourist cities in foreign countries, and analyzes its development driving mode, spatial layout, brand image of tourist cities and so on, and provides reference for Shanghai to build a world famous tourist city. The research shows that from the perspective of development-driven mode, New York City focuses on the highly driven development of economy-driven tourism, London focuses on resource-driven coordinated development of cities and tourism, and Tokyo bases its sightseeing on the national development to drive tourism and coordinated development of cities. From a spatial perspective, New York is a multi-node type and London Showing a multi-node type - point axis type, while Tokyo is multi-core concentration; from the perspective of the brand image of the tourist city, New York City is the first sustainable city in the 21st century based on its cultural and functional orientation, and London continues the history with resource-oriented positioning As a famous cultural city, Tokyo is a world city with vitality and style for the functional complex positioning mode.