This paper selected six central cities from Wuling Mountain Economic Cooperation Zone as the research objects and calculated the tourism index of these six cities. We find out that there are great differences in the level of tourism among the six regions, of which, the tourism level of Zhangjiajie is the highest, that of Qianjiang is the lowest. And this paper analyzes the reasons for the formation of tourism differences from the aspects of resource endowment, development time of this industry, parts of infrastructure and policy guidance. This paper proposes that new tourism factors should be created, the integration of featured industries with tourism promoted, a tourism space system built and policy support used to speed up the development of tourism in Wuling mountain area.