In view of the main problems of tourism food packaging at present, this paper points out the important values of introducing regional cultural elements into tourism food packaging design, and elaborates the expression strategies of regional cultural elements in tourism food packaging design from the perspective of theoretical bases, translation processes and existing typical cases, and finally puts forward the development direction of regional cultural symbol innovation design into tourism food packaging in the future, aiming at realizing the "win-win" between spreading regional characteristic culture and promoting the benign development of tourism food.