The organic combination of culture and tourism can promote the effective dissemination of tourism culture, and the enhancement of cultural popularity can lead to the increase of local economic income. The article adopts the tourism economic data of 10 tourism provinces in China, analyzes the correlation relationship between tourism culture and local economy based on MS-VAR model and regression model, and then uses the network analysis method to portray the spatial correlation network between tourism culture and local economy. The final conclusions are: the promotion effect of local economy on tourism culture is smaller than the promotion effect of tourism culture on local economy, and for both of them, the biggest promotion effect is still their own factors. The change trend of local economy for the promotion of tourism culture is weaker, and the promotion of tourism culture for the local economy is more obvious.