Resources-exhausted cities confront lots of issues in development. Transformation through industrial heritage tourism may provide a new choice. This paper analyzes the concepts of industrial heritage tourism development in resources-exhausted cities from adjusting tourism recognition, deeply digging resources connotation and mastering products market in Huangshi state mine park, and presents suggestions on reshaping tourism image which overwrites the past negative influence, and activating tourism resources which is key in resolving insufficient tourism resources. Approaches are presented to industrial heritage tourism development in Huangshi state mine park, in activating brown fields, changing traditional tourism recognition, using heritage developing model, digging mine and metallurgical cultures, innovating tourism products and mastering marketing.

Based on the field investigation and according to the geoheritage classification method of Technical requirements of national geopark planning, this paper classifies the geoheritage resources of Mt. Funiu World Geopark, applies the analytic hierarchy process to give weights of evaluation indexes, and then evaluate and rank the geoheritage resources with the improved FishbeinRosenberg model and the national standard of Classification, investigation and evaluation of tourism resources. The results indicate that there are abundant and highquality geoheritage resources in Mt. Funiu World Geopark, with three worldclass ones and 78 nationclass ones. They have great scientific values, location advantages, as well as bright market prospects. 