This paper analyzes the tourism industry's impact to the regional economic development in China. This report used cointegration analysis and established the panel data base. It include 31 regions, from 2003 to 2013. The results show that domestic tourism income, international tourism foreign exchange earnings and economic growth presence of co-integration relationship. And the China Eastern and Western regions empirical result that two independent variables to the regional economic development have positive strong statistical significance, description eastern and western regions of the tourism industry to the economic development has an important influence. And the Middle region's domestic tourism income variable has statistical significance, but international tourism foreign exchange earnings variable not have statistical significance. Northeast region two independent variables to the regional economic development not have statistical significance, and the regression coefficient is negative.