Shanghai – As IHG Hotels & Resorts (IHG) marks its 50th anniversary in Greater China and celebrates its milestone of 800 open hotels, the group officially launched its first major event of the year — “Let’s make travel easy” 2025 IHG Greater China Expo in Shenzhen, Beijing, and Shanghai. It empowers business travel by focusing on collaboration, digital empowerment, and mutual growth.
As one of IHG’s signature annual corporate events, the Greater China Expo showcases the group’s commercial strategy and innovation, while fostering ecosystem integration across the entire industry chain to help clients build stronger business networks. Leveraging cutting-edge digital technologies, booking and management processes are optimized to enhance business travel efficiency. Through important events such as “IHG Spring Sales Blitz” and the “2025 Greater China Commercial Leaders Workshop”, IHG shares valuable industry insights and drives business growth. The expo also strengthens media engagement, establishing itself as a premier industry event and a key platform for valuable exchanges.
Let’s make travel easy” 2025 IHG Greater China Expo— Source: IHG
Unlocking new opportunities for industry development
Marking 50 Years of Deep Roots and 800 Hotels, IHG continues its commitment to Greater China, solidifying its position as a leader in the business travel sector. This year’s Greater China Expo is designed to empower industry development through four key focuses: new partnerships, resource integration, insight sharing and brand showcases.
- New Partnerships: The 2025 Greater China Expo is an important platform that has attracted thousands of business travel clients and industry partners. The event also welcomes a diverse range of leading media outlets, fostering interesting discussions on the latest trends in the market.
- New Collaborations: With the recovery of inbound and outbound travel, this year’s expo features hotel exhibitors from the U.S. and Europe, reflecting IHG’s strong focus on long-term investment in China. More international participants offer a broader range of global travel options to corporate clients, further integrating China’s business travel industry with the global market.
- New Insights: The expo presents two specially curated salon sessions: “2025 Business Travel Trends” and “IHG’s Young Lifestyle Brands”. The first explores key industry trends, with in-depth analysis to help corporate clients navigate future market shifts. The second introduces Atwell Suites and EVEN Hotels, two lifestyle brands designed to meet the evolving preferences of young travelers. These brands will soon expand to Shanghai, Hangzhou, Xi’an, Wuhan, Quanzhou, and cities across Shandong, further strengthening IHG’s strategic footprint in Greater China.
- New Brands: IHG has also created an immersive Atwell Suites experience at the expo. As the new exquisite lifestyle brand to debut in Greater China, Atwell Suites is built around the concept of “new territorial home”, offering a high-quality experience for young guests who seeking an exquisite lifestyle.
From left to right (clockwise): IHG Development Booth; IHG One Rewards Booth; Atwell Suites Booth; Holiday Inn Express Booth— Source: IHG
Unlocking digital transformation for better business travel
With 50 years of experience in Greater China’s business travel market and a service network of over 800 hotels, IHG continues to enhance its digital transformation and management systems. The 2025 IHG Greater China Expo showcases their latest solutions, including the IHG Meeting mini-program, IHG Business Edge, and IHG Corporate Travel Portal WeChat mini-program, which are designed to streamline the business travel experience.
- Efficient Business Travel: IHG has integrated with leading business travel platforms to address corporate needs for cost control, process optimization and seamless booking. These solutions help businesses optimize travel expenses and management processes for better flexibility.
- IHG Meeting mini-program: Powered by digital technology, this tool simplifies meeting and event management. Business travelers can quickly search for destination hotels, explore venue details, view past event case studies and easily book their ideal event space.
- IHG Business Edge: Designed for companies with diverse travel destinations but decentralized bookings, IHG Business Edge offers exclusive discounts and self-service contracting across 6,000+ hotels worldwide, helping businesses to better manage their travel needs.
- IHG Corporate Travel Portal WeChat mini-program: Built within the WeChat ecosystem, this one-stop platform allows corporate clients to book meetings, events, and accommodations seamlessly by simplifying the traditional booking process and enabling end-to-end business travel planning—from room reservations to itinerary management—to enhance efficiency and convenience.
Unlocking a win-win future, celebrating the 800 Club milestone
Looking to the future, IHG has planned two important events, “IHG Spring Sales Blitz” and the “2025 Greater China Commercial Leaders Workshop”, to explore market trends, optimize solutions for business travel management, and give back to industry partners.
- Celebrating Success and Giving Back: During the 2025 IHG Greater China Expo, the “IHG Spring Sales Blitz” specially launched, focusing on four core areas: Journey to Tomorrow, Business Travel Solutions, Meetings and Group Travel, and Loyalty Programs. It demonstrated the group’s sincere gratitude for its partners while presenting an array of benefits for its business travelers.
- Spring Rewards Promotion: IHG® Business Rewards members who register and book stays, meetings, or events at IHG hotels in Greater China by June 30, 2025, and complete their stay by November 30, 2025, will be eligible to enjoy up to 3X points, additional qualifying nights, and an exclusive bonus of 20,000 points.
- Double Points for Unlimited Fun: IHG One Rewards members can earn double bonus points on their second stay and every subsequent stay during the promotion period. The promotion is open for registration and stays until March 31st.
IHG presenting an array of benefits for its business travelers.— Source: IHG
- Sharing Insights and Driving Growth: IHG will also hold the “2025 Greater China Commercial Leaders Workshop” in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Chengdu, covering key topics such as market trends, marketing strategies, revenue management and digital transformation. The seminar will equip IHG hotels with the insights needed to seize market opportunities and drive sustainable business growth.
As IHG Hotels & Resorts celebrates its 50th anniversary in Greater China and major milestone of 800 open hotels, this expo serves not only as a platform to showcase our achievements, innovations and future strategies, but also as a unique opportunity to collaborate with corporate clients, partners and industry media. Together, we can explore what’s next for business travel and drive high-quality industry development. We look forward to working with our partners to find innovative solutions and accelerate the transformation of the business travel ecosystem. Rita Jiang, Chief Commercial & Marketing Officer, IHG Greater China
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