| At present, China has become one of the world’s manufacturing powerhouse. However, China’s continuing industrial restructuring, industrial transformation and upgrading long way to go. In this process, the traditional manufacturing sector non-skilled labor is gradually shift to the service sector. Development of tourism become a focal point for economic growth and an important channel for the transfer of these absorb labor. On the other hand, compared with the traditional industries, tourism waste emissions, less pollution, people are rational consumption of landscape resources and it does not lead to significant loss; the development of tourism to attract foreign tourists to China tour, but also conducive to China’s opening up and promoting cultural exchanges; and with the increase of economic reform and opening-up, China’s social contradictions increasingly prominent employment, employment issues have become increasingly serious, and the tourism industry with its own characteristics, has long been thought to be "labor absorb device "to ease the employment pressure of a greater contribution. Therefore, the promotion of tourism development and give full play to the role of tourism employment absorption, not only in the "innovation, coordination, green, open, sharing" the development of the five-eighth session of the Fifth Plenary Session of the CPC concept put forward, but also conducive to the promotion of Chinese industry optimization and expansion of employment structures.In this context, this paper, the employment effects of the tourism industry as the research object creation theory and regional economic growth theory starting from the industrial employment, labor law and the transfer of services employment in carding process of industrial restructuring in the creation theory, based on the induction analysis of the employment effects of tourism play mechanism. Furthermore, on the basis of theoretical research, through quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis combined with quantitative analysis, a more comprehensive study of the quality and quantity effects effects Henan tourism employment research between 1998 and 2013. Empirical studies have found:(1) Henan tourism has become a pillar industry of local tertiary industry, the proportion of direct tourism employment declined slightly, tourism employment market supply and demand issues outstanding.(2) On the Cobb-Douglas production function econometric model to analyze the number of direct employment effect of tourism in Henan Province, studies show that from 1998 to 2013, the direct effect of the number of jobs in Henan tourism significantly, total tourism income for each additional one hundred million yuan you can drive the 40 people employed; at the same time, the tourism industry in Henan Province invested capital for each additional one hundred million yuan, will reduce employment of 8.8, reflecting sluggish growth in tourism investment, tourism-related facilities should be improved in Henan Province, restricted the number of direct employment effects play Henan tourism; low degree of opening up tourism in Henan Province, which restricts the employment effect of tourism play.(3) the use of multiplier analysis method, this thesis found that, of the tourism industry in Henan Province, indirect employment number effect is significant, continuously improve the tourism employment multiplier of Henan Province, by 10.43 at the beginning of the period to 201315.76. Accordingly, the tourism development in Henan Province drive employment in Tourism related industries continued to increase, increased by 55.26 million people to by 11.661 million people, its share of the third industry employment proportion is 19.3% from 1998 increased to 23.4% in 2013.(4) through a combination of quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis, the authors found, the tourism industry in Henan Province exist obvious employment quality effect, i.e. with increasing direct employment of the tourism industry in Henan Province, driven by potential employment population education continues to improve, help to alleviate River south province tourism industry is facing the talent shortage; in addition, employment in the tourism industry in Henan Province, growth promoting the rating increase of tourist scenic spots and tourism industry, improvement of work environment, job satisfaction and enhance their quality raise.In the end of this article, according to the findings of the article and the present situation of tourism development in Henan Province, targeted to amplify the effect of regional tourism employment, promote tourism development in Henan Province put forward constructive suggestions. |