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CHINESE OPERATORS VAULT
INTO THIS YEAR’S TOP 10.
HIS YEAR’S HOTELS 325
RANKING is one for the history
books, marking the first time a
China-based company appears in
the top 10 — and it isn’t just one.
Shanghai Jin Jiang International
Hotelsand Home Inns & Hotels
Management, ranked ninth and 10th,
respectively, have experienced explosive
growth, vaulting from relative obscurity
just a few years ago to their present lo y
positions. Both have grown almost exclusively domestically, leaving them plenty
of room to continue their rapid ascent.
More generally, 17 of the top 18 companies on this year’s list added inventory
in 2011,despite a significant slowing of
new openings and projects as the predownturn cycle empties. Of course,
much of the new inventory is coming
from — where else? — China, which
boasts a massive pipeline of more than

200,000 guestrooms, according to STR.
In all, 25 Chinese firms ranked in the top
300 this year.
Damien Little, a Singapore-based
director at consultancy Horwath HTL,
says thenumbers are a reflection of the
massive growth of China’s hotel industry
over the last decade. While the international players have dominated upscale
and luxury development across the country, it has been the domestic players that
have focused on the budget sector.
“The furious pace of growth of budget
hotels is what has propelled these two
companies,” Little says. “We should
expect to seecontinued growth in the
budget sector at a strong pace, and as
such these two groups should continue
to consolidate. Other budget groups
such as China Lodging Group, 7 Days
Group Holdings and GreenTree Inns
Hotel Management Group Inc. will likely

see some large growth in numbers.
Consolidation in this sector could create
a very large player.”
One of the biggest movers on this
year’slist is Bangkok-based Minor
International. Minor jumped 144 spots to
114th, more than doubling its inventory
thanks in part to the takeover of Oaks
Hotels & Resorts. Minor is also in the
process of rolling out the Avani Hotels &
Resorts brand, while its core Anantara
Hotels, Resorts & Spas brand is aiming to
more than double its footprint by 2015.
The top 10 brands remain traditional
namesfrom the global powers. But that
will almost certainly change next year,
with Home Inns (11) poised to move into
the top 10, and it could conceivably climb
as high as 7th in the 2013 ranking.
Clearly, the club of hotel industry
giants is no longer the exclusive domain
of European and American companies.

www.hotelsmag.com July/August 2012 HOTELS

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2011
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2011
Hotels

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2010
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1

1

InterContinental Hotels Group

Denham, England

658,348

4,480

647,161

4,437

2

2

Marriott International Inc.

Bethesda, Maryland

6 43,196

3,718

618,104

3,545
3,671

3

4

HiltonWorldwide

McLean, Virginia

633,238

3,843

604,782

4

3

Wyndham Hotel Group

Parsippany, New Jersey

613,126

7,205

612,735

7,207

5

5

Accor

Paris, France

531,714

4,426

507,306

4,229

6

6

Choice Hotels International Inc.

Silver Spring, Maryland

497,205

6,178

495,145

6,142

7

7

Starwood Hotels & Resorts WorldwideInc.

Stamford, Connecticut

321,552

1,090

308,736

1,041

8

8

Best Western International

Phoenix, Arizona

311,894

4,086

308,692

4,038

9

12

Shanghai Jin Jiang International Hotels

Shanghai, China

193,334

1,243

107,019

707

10

13

Home Inns & Hotels Management

Shanghai, China

176,824

1,426

93,898

818

11

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