Abstract: This paper conducts preliminarily the calculation of carbon emission caused by energy consumption of tourism industry in China. The carbon emissions of tourism industry in China is studied by this paper from the total emissions of tourism industry, tourist per capita carbon emission of tourism and tourism income per capita carbon emission of tourism industry respectively at the provincial scale, and further the standard deviation and coefficient variation are adopted to analyse the overall characteristics of difference of CO2 emissions for tourism industry at provincial level in China. What’s more, Theil index is used to study temporal changes of inter-provincial, inter-regional and intra-regional CO2 emissions disparities for tourism industry in China. The results mainly show that the total emissions of tourism industry in China is growing every year from 2001 to 2009, which reflects further strengthening the work of energy-saving emission reduction is imperative to adapt to the global warming, and the duty we have to perform in the future. Inter-regional CO2 emissions disparities for tourism industry in china is the main contributors, which is caused by CO2 emissions disparities of the eastern china. Therefore, controlling properly carbon emissions of tourism industry in the eastern China particularly such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong is an effective way for the government departments to narrow the differences of carbon emissions and achieve emission reduction targets for tourism industry in China.