Abstract: To realize the great development of tourism, the task of first priority is to promote the scale effect of the tourism economy.Building tourism growth pole with core attractive factors is an effective way to enlarge economic scale in tourism.Taking 16 prefecture-level cities in Anhui Province as the research subjects, 27 indices affecting the development of regional tourism industry were selected to construct the evaluation index system of tourism industry strength.The factor analysis method was adopted to give a quantitative analysis of the tourism development strength of each city, and thus the comprehensive scores of tourism strength of each city were obtained, on the basis of which, and in combination with the tourism location entropy method, a tourism growth pole model was established.According to the development strength of tourism growth, 16 prefecture-level cities in Anhui are divided into three levels, and some corresponding measures were suggested for Anhui tourism development.