As an emerging industry deeply integrating the low-altitude economy with cultural tourism, low-altitude tourism represents a crucial lever for cultivating new drivers of regional economic growth and shaping new development advantages. This study focuses on the role of low-altitude tourism in empowering regional economies, systematically analyzing its significance in promoting regional economic development. It highlights three major institutional challenges hindering its development—scarcity of airspace resources, inadequate government regulation and enforcement, and insufficient safety risk prevention and control. In response, this paper proposes targeted solutions from the perspectives of airspace property rights, collaborative governance, and infrastructure development, aiming to break the development bottlenecks of low-altitude tourism through systematic legal safeguards, thereby unleashing its potential to empower regional economies.