Abstract: Tourism poverty alleviation is one of the effective ways to alleviate poverty, and its efficiency is the core index to measure the work of tourism poverty alleviation. The tourism economic intensity is an important factor to promote tourism development. The interactions between the efficiency of tourism poverty alleviation and the tourism intensity have strong guiding significance for tourism poverty alleviation. Taking 16 counties (districts) in the Dabie Mountains of Hubei Province as the research object, this paper applied the Super-SBM model to measure the efficiency of poverty alleviation in the counties (districts) from 2011 to 2017. By modifying the traditional gravity model, this paper also constructed a relationship matrix of tourism intensity in the counties (districts). In addition, applying the social network analysis method, this paper furtherly analyzed the spatial characteristics of the tourism economic intensity in the 16 counties (districts) in 2017. Results show that: the overall efficiency of poverty alleviation by tourism in the Dabie Mountains in Hubei is at a medium to high level (mean value of 0.776), showing a general downward trend. The intensities of tourism connections among all counties are weak with obvious imbalance. The network density presents a spatial pattern of "larger dispersion and smaller aggregation". The connection density between the core area and the edge area is relatively low and the connection is not close enough. The regional spatial pattern of tourism economic connection is divided into three main tracts: southeast, northwest and central. The efficiency of tourism poverty alleviation in marginal areas is much higher than that in core areas. There is a negative correlation between the poverty alleviation efficiency and the tourism economic intensity. There are four types of tourism poverty alleviation: high efficiency with high intensity, high efficiency with low intensity, low efficiency with low intensity and low efficiency with high intensity. It is critical to improve the efficiency of tourism poverty alleviation and to optimize its endogenous relationship with tourism development. This paper suggests improving the means of tourism poverty alleviation to optimize the management mode of poverty alleviation, scientifically grasping the scale of tourism to effectively allocate tourism resources, and strengthening tourism economic ties to improve the efficiency of tourism poverty alleviation.