2026 TravelDaily Accommodation Summit Focuses on Stock-Market Shift and AI Operations

Key points

• On September 22-23, the 2026 TravelDaily Summit & Digital Travel Show was held at Shanghai International Convention Center, split into the TravelDaily Summit, Accommodation Summit and Business Travel Digitalization Summit.
• The September 23 Accommodation Summit addressed the structural shift of Chinese hotels from scale expansion to value deepening.
• In July this year, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for Building a Tourism Power, accelerating a 'mobile China' picture, with population mobility seen as the foundation of hotel survival and growth.
• In the 15th Five-Year Plan, service consumption ranked ahead of goods consumption for the first time, with the service sector expected to exceed RMB 100 trillion.
• Gao Shang, technical lead at Meituan Travel, shared in a keynote how Jibai AI empowers merchants to improve operating efficiency and revenue.
• The summit view holds that after the scale dividend fades, competition shifts to a combined contest of per-property RevPAR, member direct-booking capability, brand strength and operating efficiency.
• Drew Pinto, executive vice president and chief revenue and technology officer of Marriott International, joined a dialogue on what will decide global hotel groups' success in the next decade.