At present, 17 international hotel management groups have invested or managed high-star hotels in Shanghai, and thousands of international hotel management talents are needed every year. From the perspective of talent supply, senior hotel management talents are scarce, especially in four-and five-star hotels, which has become a "priceless" scarce resource. There is a serious shortage of high-end management talents. According to the survey of china tourism association Talent Training and Development Center, the brain drain rate of second-and third-star hotels in China is as high as 45%. According to experts' estimation, there will be 365 star-rated hotels in Shanghai by the beginning of 2007. By 20 10, there is a shortage of 500,000 hotel talents in Shanghai.

There are not a few hotel students who leave the hotel industry after graduation. According to incomplete statistics, more than 60% of hotel graduates are not currently engaged in the hotel industry. Up to 90% of enterprises want to quit or quit, and 70% of them have had the experience of quitting or quitting. The direction of hotel brain drain is the loss of hotel employees to other enterprises or companies to engage in other industries. Generally, fresh graduates go to hotels to work in 1500 yuan, but the starting salary of the same graduates entering the logistics or financial industry is at least 3,000 yuan.