Moving forward, Eight World Group will keep leveraging our multi-brand portfolio, hotel operation expertise, and digital capabilities to steadily expand our brand network and capture accommodation demand brought by travelers.

Aug 17, 2026 / receipt

Moving forward, Eight World Group will keep leveraging our multi-brand portfolio, hotel operation expertise, and digital capabilities to steadily expand our brand network and capture accommodation demand brought by travelers.

Aug 17, 2026 / receipt, needs a key / Jin Hui, CEO | earnings call 2026-08-17 | transcript f76561ed-b15d-48de-a1f6-d6831d3d3fbd | chars 4963-5188 | segment 5

In the first half of the year of 2026, the demand for travel documents for domestic travel is rising. According to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, in the first half of the year, the number of domestic residents traveling is up to 34.6 billion people, which is 5.4% earlier than before. As the multi-nation policy continues to fall, the number of tourists entering the country is rising, which brings a new increase in domestic accommodation.

Aug 17, 2026 / receipt, needs a key / Jin Hui, CEO | earnings call 2026-08-17 | transcript f76561ed-b15d-48de-a1f6-d6831d3d3fbd | chars 2347-2793 | segment 2

On the consumption structural front, the growth of total domestic travel spending moderated, up 2% year-over-year to RMB 3.2 trillion in the first half. This reflects new consumption characteristics among travelers, which are more frequent trips with more prudent standing decisions.

Aug 17, 2026 / receipt, needs a key / Jin Hui, CEO | earnings call 2026-08-17 | transcript f76561ed-b15d-48de-a1f6-d6831d3d3fbd | chars 3340-3623 | segment 3

Hanting Express takes on the important mission of the Hanting brand, to further accelerate the promotion of brands and products, To further expand our footprint in the lower-tier markets, advance Hanting brand purification, and meet the diversified travel needs of consumers, we have launched the Hanting Yin brand, Han Ting Ying strikes a perfect balance between cost effectiveness and quality.

Mar 18, 2026 / receipt, needs a key / Jinghui, CEO | earnings call 2026-03-18 | transcript 9cf219a9-a7c6-4d24-b4df-93c460ea36ad | chars 10187-10582 | segment 10

First of all, I would like to do a simple sharing of the overall travel market observation. In the year of 2025, the demand for domestic residents to travel has returned from a stage-based recovery to a standardized demand. Data showing that the overall travel demand for railways, airlines, and passengers has maintained a steady growth. The demand for passengers and consumption has steadily increased. The public's longing for a better life continues to grow steadily. As the traffic network is improving, the demand for accommodation is accelerating from the core city to the county and township, and the lower-level market has become a new growth level for civil consumerism. The new industry-style consumerism, such as civil consumerism, exhibition, sports competition, and so on, will drive the demand for accommodation to be diversified and qualitatively upgraded. The current industry is facing low-quality homogenization attacks.

Mar 18, 2026 / receipt, needs a key / Jinghui, CEO | earnings call 2026-03-18 | transcript 9cf219a9-a7c6-4d24-b4df-93c460ea36ad | chars 2354-3293 | segment 2

Demand for travel is gradually shifting from discretionary demand to necessity for Chinese consumers. Data from railway, aviation, and tourism all indicate a steadily growing travel demand in China. The number of trips as well as consumer spending continues rising as people increasingly pursue a better life. As China's transportation network improves, accommodation needs quickly expanded from major cities to county-level markets. making the lower-tier city a new growth engine for tourism consumption. Strong demand for self-pleasure and experiential consumption, together with booming tourism events, exhibitions, and sports competitions, are driving the diversification and quality upgrades of accommodation needs. However, China's hotel industry still faces oversupply of low-quality and homogeneous products. while high-quality, value-for-money supply remains insufficient. Therefore, supply-side reform will remain the main theme of future industry development, and this will undoubtedly bring tremendous growth opportunities for the leading domestic branded hotel groups like H-World.

Mar 18, 2026 / receipt, needs a key / Jinghui, CEO | earnings call 2026-03-18 | transcript 9cf219a9-a7c6-4d24-b4df-93c460ea36ad | chars 3494-4588 | segment 3

As the leading players in China's hotel industry, we will continue deepening our roots in the China market, pursuing high quality growth and delivering service excellence with a brand-led approach to reduce industry with centering on high quality and efficiency. We are full of confidence in the future development of China's hotel industry.

Nov 17, 2025 / receipt, needs a key / Jin Hui, CEO | earnings call 2025-11-17 | transcript 71e9fd3b-8b81-49c0-9722-55aba7668e5e | chars 5379-5720 | segment 5

Moreover, our group's strong supply chain and modular construction capability, as well as our global leading membership and direct sales capability, will effectively support our GE Icons to reach low construction costs high operational efficiency, and high product quality. We believe GE Icons will become one of the big driving forces to support our penetration in the upper-mid-scale segment and has the potential to become another world-class brand after hunting GE Hotel and Orange Brand.

Nov 17, 2025 / receipt, needs a key / Jin Hui, CEO | earnings call 2025-11-17 | transcript 71e9fd3b-8b81-49c0-9722-55aba7668e5e | chars 12136-12628 | segment 11

On the demand side, Data from railway aviation and the number of tourists indicate that the domestic travel demands continuously to grow steadily, with the increasing demand for travel being particularly evident during the national day and the mid-autumn festivals holiday period.

Nov 17, 2025 / receipt, needs a key / Jinghui, other | earnings call 2025-11-17 | transcript 71e9fd3b-8b81-49c0-9722-55aba7668e5e | chars 6024-6304 | segment 6

But on the other hand, for the leisure demand, it was continuously growing. As I mentioned previously, for the Chinese consumers nowadays, the leisure traveling demand has gradually become a necessity instead of discretionary demand.

Nov 17, 2025 / receipt, needs a key / Jinghui, other | earnings call 2025-11-17 | transcript 71e9fd3b-8b81-49c0-9722-55aba7668e5e | chars 21018-21251 | segment 20

Hanting's product design, I think, is not only in China, but also in the world, it can lead to the most advanced design of economic hotels. Especially with the whole capacity of our Chinese main supply chain, The cost is lower, the price is lower, the supply is shorter, and the quality is more stable. It should be said that it is a very strong core brand for the development of the entire Chinese national market.

Aug 20, 2025 / receipt, needs a key / President Jin, other | earnings call 2025-08-20 | transcript 26d2a809-c913-4340-9bf3-ec7eafcc4464 | chars 35465-35880 | segment 36

On the demand side, domestic number of travelers continues to grow steadily according to the data released from railways, airlines, and the tourism statistics. However, due to the rapid increase in hotel supply over the past two years, Coped with the negative impacts of various macro factors on business traveling and consumer spending willingness, the hotel industry is still facing some challenges.

Aug 20, 2025 / receipt, needs a key / Jinghui, CEO | earnings call 2025-08-20 | transcript 26d2a809-c913-4340-9bf3-ec7eafcc4464 | chars 2937-3338 | segment 3