With the social development, tourism has become one of the industries with strongest development momentum and largest scale in global economy. According to China tourism research institute data, there are 76 million tourism employment rates in China. Tourism has shown great vitality and potential on employment, poverty alleviation, environmental protection, people's livelihood and society.

As China rapidly becomes stronger and stronger, tourism has become China's capacity to absorb employment, one of the largest industries. Up to now, tourism direct employment and indirect employment accounts for a large part in national employment. Particularly in the settlement of China's minority residents, women, migrant workers, laid-off workers, university graduates for the first time employed in specific populations such as employment, tourism has played an important role. Daibin –China tourism research institute president stated in the seminar of tourism and district economy development held by “Economy Daily” that because of its relatively economical on resources utilization, tourism can comprehensively make the plan of practical profit vs. long term profit and economy development vs. ecological protection. In order to promote the low carbon tourism, China promised to reduce energy consumption of tourism hotel industry by 20% in the following five years. Now, the direct employments of tourism are 11 million in China, and 76 million employments for the whole tourism. In 2006, more than 6 million rural people obtained new jobs on the tourism, which played a significant role in narrowing the district economy gap and innovating development of the resource-exhausted regions.

Dai pointed that it was the normalization stage of China’s tourism economy performance and presented the unbalanced situation which was led by eastern area. However, it tends to be narrow differences on inbound tourism between central & western and eastern areas. It was learned that tourism demand with the main body of people moved to normalization stage from policy stimulation, while tourism firms were represented by private and new industry, toward the stage of intensive growth from scale expansion. In current and future periods, the principal contradiction for the tourism improvement is still the contradiction between the changing demands of people for tourism & leisure and the relatively backward tourist organization & tourism public service levels.

Dai stated that the rational operation of China’s tourism economy should abide by the concept of “civilians, stability, and equality”, keep the tourism programming of more national participation, higher quality to share, and the strategic guidance of macro-control and micro-supervision system to guarantee the tourism performance. Now the condition of China’s tourism is still with low popularity, low urban travel rate, and low per capita consumption.