Taiwanese government adjusted its tourism policy toward Chinese people in 2008, hoping that it would enhance its economic prosperity and create the employment. Motivated the economic effects generated by the relaxation of the policy were unclear, in the present study, we have employed both the industry-related spillover model and employment-created model to examine the economic scale and the number of persons employed created, and to investigate the extent of the effects on the tourism-related industries. Our findings were that the economic spillover effects generated by the relaxation of tourism policy were brief and transient.