China News Service, Changsha, November 7th (Tang Xiaoqing and Zeng Hequn) "Bringing wisdom to Xiaoxiang and gathering talents in Hunan" 2026 Hunan Province "Cultural Tourism +" High-Quality Integrated Development Talent Exchange Conference was held at Changsha University on the 7th.
As a key brand event for attracting talents in the field of cultural tourism in Hunan, the conference closely follows the high-quality development needs of the cultural tourism industry in Hunan. It iterates on the idea of holding the conference based on the first conference in 2025, and puts more emphasis on job matching, precise docking, simultaneous recruitment and retention, and tracking services. It strives to build a supply and demand docking platform for young talents in the cultural tourism industry to come to Hunan or stay in Hunan for employment and entrepreneurship, gather the momentum of cultural tourism talents, activate the vitality of industrial innovation, and help build a youth-friendly province.
It is reported that this conference brought together 448 employers online and offline, and released 11,636 recruitment positions, covering the entire cultural and tourism industry chain as well as new tracks for cross-border integration in multiple fields. Among them, there are 160 core business enterprises in cultural tourism and sports, accounting for 35.7%; 65 enterprises in special business formats such as industrial tourism, ecological agriculture, and intangible cultural heritage, accounting for 14.5%; "cultural tourism + technology", "cultural tourism + education", low-altitude tourism, artificial intelligence and other new industries There are 68 industrial enterprises, accounting for 15.2%; 42 hotel, B&B and catering enterprises, accounting for 9.4%; 23 animation and game enterprises, accounting for 5.1%; the rest are comprehensive supporting institutions such as human resources, finance and insurance, all-round strengthening of the cultural tourism industry employment support system.
In terms of salary, the average annual salary of the participating positions is about 85,000 yuan, and the maximum annual salary can reach 480,000 yuan. Among them, the highest monthly salary for PhD positions is 40,000 yuan, the average monthly salary for master's degree positions is about 11,000 yuan, and the average monthly salary for undergraduate positions is about 7,000 yuan. Job requirements focus on cultural tourism operation management, culture and art, technical support, tourism services, etc.; more than half of the positions are suitable for liberal arts professionals, and more than 40% of the positions are open to junior college talents. The positions have wide coverage, strong adaptability, and high inclusiveness.
In addition, focusing on precise supply and demand docking, the conference released the "2026 Hunan Province "Cultural Tourism +" Job Demand Catalog", supporting a number of long-term talent introduction measures, and simultaneously carried out a month-long online special recruitment, corporate job visits, tours of universities inside and outside the province, gold medal commentator exchanges and promotions, etc., to build a comprehensive, full-cycle cultural tourism talent introduction, docking, service, promotion system, and continue to expand employment channels for young talents.
During the event, relevant departments and bureaus of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Ministry of Education held a work exchange meeting in Hunan on promoting employment and entrepreneurship in the field of culture and tourism (Central-South Area) titled "Talents Gathering in Culture, Tourism and Jobs to Lead the Future", focusing on the employment and entrepreneurship of college graduates and young people in the field of culture and tourism to exchange experiences, discuss measures, and seek common development. The participating representatives also went to the Malanshan Video Cultural and Creative Industrial Park, visited key cultural and creative enterprises, and conducted on-site investigations into the development of Hunan's cultural tourism industry and talent cultivation ecosystem.
