The purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamic relationship between tourism and aviation industry. By using the Co-integration Test and Granger Causality Test Method, the dynamic interaction between tourism and aviation industry is systematically analyzed during the period of 1985-2010 in China. Furthermore, the impulse responses as well as the significance of aviation industry and tourism are investigated by the Impulse Response Function and Variance Decomposition Model. The results show that there is a stable equilibrium relation between tourism and aviation industry in the long-run. In addition, the aviation industry is one of the reasons for the tourism growth and also it can promote the development of the tourism significantly. Impulse response function indicates that aviation industry has effect on tourism significantly and inbound tourism has great response to international air route, domestic tourism has huge response to air route mileage. Variance decomposition indicates that international aviation passenger capacity contributes to the growth of the inbound tourism enormously and air route mileage contributes to the growth of domestic tourism hugely. Moreover, aviation industry plays a more important role to the growth of domestic tourism than inbound tourism. This study provides a reference for the relation between tourism and air transportation network development.