Mr. Qi Ji is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in China, who co-founded Ctrip.com, HomeInns & Hotels and founded HUAZHU Hotels Group. All the three companies have been successfully listed on NASDAQ and the market value reaches over US$ 1 billion for each one. His successful story is the legend in the industry.

Under his strong leadership, all the 40,000 employees commit themselves to keep satisfying travelers and corporate clients with impressive and cost-effective travel experiences. Aiming to become one of the world’s leading hotel operator, HUAZHU formed an extensive and long-term alliance with Accor in 2014, offering the customers of both loyalty programs (together 47 million members) the opportunity to access a network of over 5,600 hotels globally.

Qi Ji will attend:

May 13  09:15 - 10:00 Executive Roundtable：CEO Talk

In 2005, Mr. Alex Zheng founded 7 Days Inn and served as CEO.

Plateno Group was founded in 2013, which wholly-owned 7 Days Inn after its privatization. The group has launched a series of unique hotel & cross-border brands. The amount of Plateno Group members has exceeded 80 million. Plateno Group now owns 14 distinctive hotel brands, 3 cross-border brands and nearly 3,000 hotels in over 300 cities in China, and has proactively expanded overseas to Southeast Asia and Europe.

Due to his outstanding performances, Mr. Zheng has received numerous national awards, including hotel industrial, commercial and economic praise.

Alex Zheng will attend:

May 13  09:15 - 10:00 Executive Roundtable：CEO Talk

Mr. Simon Zhang is Jin Jiang International Hotel’s CEO and is responsible for driving and executing the company's strategic direction and to further enhance its operational efficiency and brand awareness. He has over 20 years’ experience in the hospitality industry and prior to his current role, he was the CEO of Shanghai Jin Jiang International Hotels Development Co., Ltd. He is a seasoned hotelier who is familiar with modern hotel management and has cross-cultural communication skills and expertise.

Simon Zhang will attend:

May 13  09:15 - 10:00 Executive Roundtable：CEO Talk

Mr. David Sun has served as CEO of Homeinns since December 2004. Mr. Sun has over ten years‘ experience in the consumer industry. Under his leadership, Homeinns Hotel Group has become the No.1 economy hotel chain in China, with more than 3,000 hotels covering over 330 cities in China. In October 2006, Mr. Sun led Homeinns to successfully list on NASDAQ.

Prior to joining Homeinns, Mr. Sun served as vice president of operations for B&Q (China) Ltd., a subsidiary of Kingfisher plc, the third largest home improvement retail group in the world since 2003 to 2004.

David Sun will attend:

May 13  14:00 - 14:25 Keynote：Restructure the Value Proposition for Guests

As we can see, hotels are the entry to the business world. Our guests mean traffic to our hotels. What do they want to buy? What else are they interested in to spend the leisure time during the business travel? In the era of online to offline, we can provide more than just the rooms…

Mr. Elton Sun is the General Manager of HK CTS Hotels Co., Ltd. His practice in the hotel industry has exceeded twenty years. Mr. Elton Sun has profound understanding and unique philosophy on the development of hotel group in China. He had led the team to successfully complete the planning and foundation of “Metropark Hotel” brand by taking over some foreign branded hotels in Nanjing in 2006, merging of the former CTS Group, takeovers of three foreign-investment brand hotels and operation of rearranging Central SOEs. Mr. Elton Sun and his team are on the way to accomplish the strategic objective of “Establishing hotel’s top line own brand with international standard” via brand strategy, capital operation, resource integration and corporate governance. Mr. Elton Sun holds a master degree of hotel management from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Elton Sun will attend:

May 13  09:15 - 10:00 Executive Roundtable：CEO Talk

Mr. John Kidd was born in New Zealand and has 40 years of hospitality management experience in 17 hotels, seven countries and three continents, ten hotels as general manager of large city and resort hotels. He was with Hilton Worldwide for 19 years throughout Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Guam-USA, Thailand and three cities in China for 11 years. He holds a Diploma in Hospitality Management, a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours in Economics and Business Economics (specializing in International Marketing), and a Master of Business Administration (MBA). He is a Certified Hospitality Administrator (CHA) and Certified Hospitality Accountant Executive (CHAE) in the USA and a Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality (FIH) and Member of the Chartered Management Institute (MCMI) in the UK.

John Kidd will attend:

May 13  11:20 - 12:10 Executive Roundtable：China Hotels Overseas Expansion Strategy

Mr. Bao was appointed the Vice Chairman and CEO of Shanghai Jinjiang International Travel Co., Ltd. in January, 2014. He is also the mentor of graduate students for MTA at Fudan University. He has more than 20 years’ experience in hotel management, tourism and E-commerce.

In July 2010, Mr. Bao established Jin jiang International E-Commerce Center as requested by Jin Jiang International Group, which effectively improved the resources integration of tourism and O2O marketing. He also served as the Deputy General Manager of Shanghai Jin Jiang Tower and the Senior Vice President of Shanghai Jin Jiang Thayer Interactive Co., Ltd..

Rodney Bao will attend:

May 14  14:00 - 14:50 Executive Roundtable：Hotel Multi-screen Strategy

How hotels and OTAs leverage social media tools and mobile innovations to build customer loyalty and improve conversion? 

Mr. Allan Cheng is the president and CEO of Eastern Crown Hotels Group. He was awarded the “Leading Hoteliers of China” and “Continental Diamond Award 10 Outstanding Entrepreneurs”. He is also the director of Hubei Chamber of Commerce, Guangxi and Vice President of World Hotel Association. Mr. Cheng holds an MBA degree.

Allan Cheng will attend:

May 13  16:35 - 17:25 Executive Roundtable：The Development of Middle Scale Hotel Market