The development of tourism resources is a complicated progress of economic, social and environmental effect, which largely relies on resources and environment. The deteriorating tourism environment and pollution from green industries make the sustainable development of tourism a focus. This paper, based on the scientific concept of development, combines the poverty theory with sustainable development theory of tourism, presents a concept of tourism ecological poverty, and gives its definition, expands its connection to the sustainable development of tourism that the unsustainable development of tourism will lead to a tourism ecological poverty, and that the tourism ecological poverty is a consequence of the unsustainable development of tourism.

This paper reviews the ecological poverty progress, discusses the background where the ecological poverty was presented firstly, gives a definition of ecological poverty, analyzes the features and causes, and presents approaches to ecological poverty.

This paper defines the Big Lijiang river tourism economic zone, discusses how to construct the tourism economic zone based on tourism products development, and presents four product groups and five strategies to develop the big Lijiang river tourism products following the six principles.