With the present new normal of China’s economy, tourism industry is ushering in the great development opportunities. As one of the key areas of investment, consumption and exportation as well as an essential part of modern services, tourism industry is of great significance in building a modern service economic system. Meanwhile, it will serve as a major force in Chinese economic and social structure adjustment. Chinese tourism industry is undergoing a rapid development phase and its functions are gradually magnifying. Tourism economy has an increasing influence on the country’s social economy especially in the transition stage from industrial society to post-industrial society. The growth and development of tourism industry are directly related to the achievement of the macro-goal of stable and sustainable development of social economy. Nevertheless, the present development patterns and models of Chinese tourism industry fail to accommodate the international tourism economy development trends and the demands of Chinese social and economic development. Due to the fact that it is difficult to change the inherent patterns and models, the achievements of opportunities have been hindered to a great extent. Consequently, the second revolution is needed in Chinese tourism industry. The spirit of reform should be upheld in pursuit of a new path for Chinese tourism development and the spirit of innovation should be kept throughout the building of new tourism operating patterns. Moreover, the market should play a decisive role in creating the business model which will be adapted to the future development of tourism industry. To meet the needs of the second tourism revolution, the future tourism economy development strategies and the normative research of tourism industry policies should be based on the following three major works: reconsidering the tourism phenomenon, rediscovering the strength of market, and reunderstanding the tourism system design. This theoretical research is aimed at facilitating the reform task efficiently, thereby promoting the growth of Chinese tourism industry effectively.

What is tourism is the fundamental question of tourism research and the basis for various stakeholders to dialogue together, yet it has not been soundly responded. In the context of China, the government plays a significant role in tourism development. With the purpose of exploring the government’s comprehension of tourism, the paper used the method of Discourse Analysis to analyze the documents about tourism published by the State Council and National Tourism Administration in recent years. The findings indicate that in most of the government’s documents, tourism is regarded as a kind of consumption activity which is the summation of a series of activities associated with tourism, and an economical industry. Namely, the economic attribute is considered to be the nature of tourism. However, the government turns its attention to the social welfare function of tourism and the individual experience feature of tourism recently. With regard to the scope of tourism, the results show that it includes tourist activities and tourist industry, while tourist activities include leisure, recreation, outdoor sports and so on referred to in academia. As for the relevance of tourism, government pays more attention to the development and construction of tourism, tourists’ rights, especially the tourist safety and the quality of tourism service, and the protection of the ecological environment and tourism resources. Though the nature and the scope of tourism comprehended by the government are inconsistent to the comprehension of most scholars, it is reasonable from the analysis of discourse, which implies that the government is affected by the government functions.

In this paper, the author used logical reasoning methods to discuss several conceptual understanding of the tourism’s contribution to the national economy. This paper points out that: (1) Tourism gross income is the sum of domestic tourism consumption and tourism service export, so the idea that tourism gross income can't compare with GDP is not correct.(2) Since there are many differences in the scope of tourism, tourism gross income cannot be simply equal to the total output value of tourism.(3)Tourism value added index facilitates the comparison of tourism and other industries. But due to the different statistics of the tourism scope, calculating the tourism value added is different, so it is difficult to compare.(4)Tourism investment contributes to the growth of GDP, but it is not the contribution of the tourism itself. If the tourism investment and tourism gross incomes are totaled as tourism’s contribution to GDP, it will lead to repeated calculation of GDP. (5) In general, the outbound tourism is not a part of the national or regional tourism industry. To meet the demand of national tourism and leisure, regarding it as a part of the tourism is more appropriate. (6) The complexity of the tourism industry cannot be used to explain the strong correlation with other industries. In a sense, tourism is simply made up of many industries, its industry correlation is just the weighted average of those industries correlation degree, and mainly depends on some activities which have closely related to tourism characteristic. Therefore, to compare the correlation degree of tourism industry with other industries can only live in a middle position, instead of living in the forefront of all industries. Tourism’s most important leading role of the national economy may not be input and output of economic ties, but enhancing the image of the region, optimizing the investment environment, improving the quality of the humanities and so on. The problem discussed in this paper is largely due to researcher’s imprecise use of the concept. From this point, the task of the discipline construction of tourism has still a long way to go.

The traditional theory of studying on gender discrimination think that fertility cost, level of education and cultural factors lead to the productivity difference and the difference between men and women in the human capital endowment, which finally result in the gap of gender income. But after the control of the above factors, the literature shows that gender discrimination still exists in the economic field. This paper argued that the different ways of leisure allocation between men and women was the important cause of wage income gap of male and female. Using the field experiment and research for nine consecutive days in a typical manufacturing enterprise and establishing continuous "Time log sheet" (the Time Use survey) data, this paper found that men’s leisure configuration mode (engaged in more social activities) helped them have more social capital. The living mode characterized by the patriarchal society implicated gender discrimination in the men's and women's output. To this end, the paper suggested that the government should launch more employment system (e.g. "flexible schedule ") in line with women's life rhythm and living habits based on the current work situation to radically eliminate the income gap between men and women caused by gender discrimination.

Under the New Normal economic background, the growth of China's hotel industry has transformed from explosive growth to normal development, so there is an urgent need to upgrade to adapt to the new environment for the development of hotel industry. This paper took entrusted management hotels for example, proposed that entrusted management mode was an important way of hotels to get and transfer knowledge. This paper explored the influence factors of knowledge transfer in entrusted management hotel by literature analysis and interviews, which included 5 kinds of characteristic variables: characteristics of knowledge, characteristics of knowledge transfer, characteristics of knowledge receiver, knowledge transfer channels and knowledge transfer situational factors. Then this paper explored the direction and extent of the factors on knowledge transfer effectiveness, and compared knowledge transfer in domestic and abroad. The results showed that: (1) there is significant difference between home and abroad on the influence factors and transfer effect, thus hotel owners should adjust targeted knowledge transfer strategies according to the management company; (2) the complexity of knowledge will suppress the effect of knowledge transfer, but transfer willingness, learning culture, motivation system, transfer channel and trust relationships can promote knowledge transfer successfully and improve the efficiency of knowledge transfer; (3) the implicit of knowledge, transfer ability, receiving willingness, absorption capacity and knowledge structure have no significant correlation with knowledge transfer performance. In the end, in order to improve the efficiency of knowledge transfer, management suggestions are discussed.

Under the background of e-commerce and mobile commerce, the commission problem leading to many contradictions in the hospitality industry and the OTA’s commission model has received more and more challenges (represented by Ctrip). In this paper, based on this commission mode between hotel and OTA, the author established the hotel dominant Stackelberg dynamic game model and the optimization model of cooperation. By solving the model and numerical analysis, the paper concluded respectively the reasonable range when hotel and OTA took the non-cooperate strategy and cooperate strategy.According to the results of numerical analysis, the author draw the following conclusions: (1) With the improvement of the hotel direct proportion, hotel needs to increase the commission to compensate the OTA’s losses caused by hotel’s direct competition. (2) In the hotel dominant market, when the direct proportion is very low, the OTA, in order to get more hotel resources, needs to pay commission to hotel in which situation the commission is equivalent to the wholesale price. (3) When the relationship between the hotel and OTA shifts from competition to cooperation, the hotel needs to transfer partial interest to OTA for cooperation by improving commission.

：Tourism has become a popular and normalized type of activity. Thus, tourism safety has received more and more public attentions. Analyzing the existed researches concerning tourism safety, combining the research streams of tourism safety and discovering the inadequate tourism safety researches are of great significance to the construction of a sound tourism safety research system. Based on the reviews of the connotations and appearances of tourism safety, the research reviewed and summarized domestic tourism safety studies in the last decade from four aspects, tourism body security research, tourism object security research, tourism media security research and tourism safety emergency management research. Firstly, the research reviewed the perception of the safety of tourists, sense of security, safety behavior, safety management and affecting factors on the safety of tourists. Secondly, the research reviewed and combed studies concerning tourism objection the security of tourism resource and the safety of tourist facilities. Thirdly, the research analyzed the travel media from the six elements of tourism. Finally, the research reviewed the research of travel safety emergency management from four stages: prevention, early warning, rescue and recovery. In the end, the author combined the background and the current situation of tourism development and came up with the opinion that tourism safety studies in the future should note four words: focusing, valuing, expanding and improving.