Socialism core value system education needs to use a series of carriers to fulfill educational mission and red tourism is one of important active carriers. Red tourism can enhance people’s ideological faith, facilitate common ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics, propagate national spirit, enhance China nationalities’ cohesive force, persist the basic status of honor and disgrace of socialism and serve propagation of socialism core value system. With the changing of international and domestic situation, China needs to innovate red tourism and initiate new situation of socialism core value education.