During 2016-2017, with the implementation of “the Belt and Road” national development strategy, the supply-side structural reform and guided by the 13^th Five-Year Plan for the tourism industry of the country, the maritime tourism economy welcomes major development opportunities. Cruise tourism has gradually become an important part of China's tourism and an important engine that drives the globalization, internationalization and brand marketing of the tourism industry. In this process, some hot events aroused the unprecedented concerns of all circles from the public to researches, from domestic and foreign tourists to industrial experts.

To comprehensively view and accurately analyze these events, Shanghai International Cruise Business Institute conducted extensive online selection on June 2017 and finally chose ten hot events from over twenty candidates based on principles: events happening in the cruise industry in the past year that have aroused intensive responses and representative events that could give significant enlightenment to the development of China's cruise tourism. The final ten hot events were chosen based on the discussions of 142 industrial experts and scholars, especially with the discussions of professionals in this field in July 2017, of which the positive and negative influences were dug at depth to play the demonstrative role and bring along more enlightenment to the society as well as more momentum to the future of the industry.