Abstract: Taking the tourist location and market share as the measurement tools, the article selects the annual tourism income, the number of tourists received annually and the regional GDP in 12 counties in the Dabieshan area of Anhui Province from 2014 to 2017, and studies the development of tourism economy in Dabieshan area and the characteristics of its spatial pattern change. The research shows that the development status of the tourism economic spatial pattern in the Dabieshan area of Anhui Province is a three-level evolution of the core area, the potential area and the weak area. The evolution process also shows three trends of continuous growth, growth and shrinking, and stagnation. The hierarchical gradient pattern is characterized by a gradual decline in the hierarchy from the center to the north and the south. At the same time, in response to the problems of the tourism economy in the Dabieshan area of Anhui Province, the corresponding solutions and development strategies are proposed.