Yali Technology Builds Lower-Tier City Corporate Lodging Network Linking Corporate Demand and Hotel…

Key points

• In 2025, lower-tier market business-travel lodging orders grew 26.2% year on year, accounting for 43.3% of national business-travel lodging orders.
• TravelDaily China research shows over half of employees encountered hotel quality or hygiene issues in lower-tier cities; 44% of corporate travel managers cited incomplete resource coverage in county-level and lower-tier areas, with employees even rebooking hotels themselves.
• In Q1 2026, 36% of companies slightly reduced travel budgets and 32% kept them roughly flat; cost control remained the top corporate travel management consideration at 66%, employee experience reached 64%, and compliance and risk control rose to 52%.
• Yali Technology operates a three-track contracting system of group, regional and property levels: the group handles unified cooperation with large corporate clients, regions take on local corporate demand, and properties expand local negotiated clients.
• On the supply side, Yali Technology has enabled 10+ external brands and 1,000+ external hotels; its own hotel network covers 200+ cities with 800+ hotels and 6 brands.
• Yali Club connects over 25 million members with a central reservation rate above 70%, and opens member traffic to partner hotel management companies.
• A Q2 2025 survey shows that when choosing business hotels, 64.4% of business travellers value location convenience most, 40.55% value self-service work areas and 33.9% value shared meeting rooms.
• Case examples show Yaster International Hotel's Nanning Wanxiang City ASEAN Business District metro station property was fully booked for six consecutive days during the 2025 ASEAN Expo with daily RevPAR above RMB 400; the Fangchenggang Taohua Bay Square property has 30% negotiated corporate clients, average occupancy above 80% over the past two years and blended RevPAR above RMB 290.