To strengthen urban tourism sustainable development, this paper puts forward the extraction method of tourism sustainable development path under the background of artificial intelligence [Formula: see text] smart city construction. Based on the conceptual model of influencing factors of smart city sustainable development, this paper analyzes the connotation of latent variables. And we are designing a structural analysis model to analyze the current situation of urban tourism sustainable development, analyzing the total effect of parameter factors, formulating the path of smart city tourism sustainable development corresponding to the parameters, and taking Anhui Province as an example. To guide the construction and perfection of the industrial chain of the smart city’s sustainable development of industrial tourism, this paper constructs the system model of smart city, analyses the sustainable development model of Anhui smart city, and designs the extraction method of the sustainable development path of intelligent city tourism.