Abstract: With the deepening development of China's new urbanization strategy towards improving quali-.ty and eficiency, the tourism industry, relying on its comprehensive effects in employment, consumption , industry, ecology, culture, and housing, is highly compatible with the Chinese characteristic newurbanization path of “ people-oriented, synchronized with the four modernizations, optimized layout, eco-logical civilization, and cultural inheritance". It will play a more important role in the process of new ur.banization. This article elaborates on the positive interaction and coupling coordination between thetourism industry and the new urbanization with Chinese characteristics. Focusing on the research of char.acteristic small towns , it proposes the driving mechanism and model of small town tourism urbanization ,and attempts to construct a sustainable innovative development path that integrates tourism, industry, cul.ture , and urbanization. In planning practice , taking Kunming Dounan Flower Town as an example. in response to the practical problems existing in the original urbanization path of the town, the constructionand development path of the town is reconstructed from aspects such as enhancing tourism functions, shaping cultural IP , extending industrial chains, and optimizing urban supporting facilities, and corresponding planning strategies are proposed.