In this article，it analyses the prominent phenomenon in the curriculum construction and reform of higher tourism vocation：emphasizing the teaching organization of the course，belittling the courses set-up； curriculum is based on the needs of tourism enterprises，not on the tourists' demand，which leads to the lack of the applicable course serving to market entities in higher vocational tourism education. And on this basis，it makes clear that tourists' demand should be the standpoint of tourism major in higher vocational education to set up curriculum and teach. With an example of offering medical first aid course，it carries the research on opening higher vocational tourism professional curriculum on the basis of the tourists' demand.