New Century Hotels and Resorts and NJ Robotics have signed a strategic partnership to jointly explore the applications of smart robots in the hotel industry.
An Starwood acquisition would mean China will have the largest global hotel group in the world pioneered by the upcoming Jin Jiang-Plateno merger.
Mingyan Software, developer of Diaotian Cloud Hotel PMS,signed an agreement to receive an angel investment from Plateno Group.
Hotels in China need to be equipped with better technology to manage a variety of systems such as PMS, CRS etc.
A hotel ranking list based on room counts shows local economy hotel chains topping the charts while major international hotel groups are shrinking in scale.
“Our goal is to become the leader in the market of medium- and small-sized hotels in third- to sixth-tier cities within the next three years,” said CEO Lihua Xiao.
ChinaTravelNews has learned exclusively that Jin Jiang Hotels will make a strategic investment in Plateno Group that will lead to the link-up of the two groups.
China’s top 60 hotel groups in terms of size for 2014 were published in the “2014 China Hotel Group Operational Scale Statistics”.
