This paper examines the causal link between inbound tourism from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korean, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippine and Thailand and Taiwan’s economic growth, using a rolling window quantile Granger causality test over the 2001.Q1-2019.Q4 period. Many papers have tested Granger-causality using conditional mean regression models in which the causal relations are linear. We apply a Granger-causality in quantiles analysis that evaluates causal relations in each quantile of the distribution. Under this approach with a rolling window, we can discriminate between causality affecting the median and the tails of the conditional distribution and estimate structural breaks. We find evidence of causality between inbound tourism and economic growth at the lowest tail of the distribution in certain periods, 2016Q1-2017Q2 and 2017Q4-2019Q2 for China. A negative impact from tourism development to GDP might indicate crowd-out effect exits in China tourists. We find evidence of causality between inbound tourism and economic growth in Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and Philippine that inbound tourism promotes economic growth (tourism-led growth). In Thailand, a positive impact from inbound to economic growth at the lowest tail of the distribution in certain periods, 2015Q2-2019Q4. Knowing the causal relationship and the direction between tourism development and economic growth is of particular importance to policymakers.