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| Last year, they did quite well in terms of the EBITDA margins, particularly in the China business |
| Simon Cheung The CEO, Jin Hui, just earlier mentioned that the company has greatly benefited from 3 macro or structural trends in the hotel industry over the last several years |
| Hui Jin In 2023, the domestic traveling industry experienced strong momentum of recovery along with the robust rebound of the industry |
| H World continued implementing our sustainable, high-quality growth strategy and achieved great results |
| Thanks to the strong leisure demand and the gradual recovery of business demand post-pandemic |
| So, all in all, that for the franchises, definitely what we are trying to do as well as providing their good services and supportive policies just to ensure that every hotel stay open, we are going to have a good return on ROI |
| For some of the existing franchisees, we're definitely helping them to open every hotels and with a good return |
| So, definitely a healthier return or ROI for franchisees and very important thing that's what we are putting a lot of efforts on to helping them to get a good return to open every hotel that can help to make the money |
| And, as you mentioned, we will maintain a healthy growth with service excellence |
| Sijie Lin So, what's the RevPAR guidance for Q1, would you might sharing with us? And we got a higher growth opening and net opening this year which we think is a very good thing and achieve a real high-quality growth |
| So, again, last year, post-pandemic, for the entire year, we clearly see that the RevPAR recovery was mainly driven by a very strong leisure traveling demand |
| In fact, there's going to be a very good supportive factors for us for future sustainable, high-quality growth |
| Given our established capability, we are confident that we're going to be having another good new signings for this year as well as the new opening for the year, just like we just gave the guidance for the 1,800 |
| By giving these benefits as well as our continuous efforts on building our brand awareness, in terms of getting into the leading position in different segments like economic and the middle scale that we have several brands are at the leading position |
| After only 1 year post its official launch, Orange LoHaS version has already gained tremendous popularity in the market |
| One is the benefit from the continuous regeneration improvements in the market, especially going to be benefiting the top-tier companies like H World |
| The revenue growth of Legacy-Huazhu was driven by the strong travel demand in China as well as our continued product upgrade and the market penetration throughout regional offices |
| Occupancy rate also improved throughout the year to 81% for the full year of 2023 |
| In addition, our capabilities of localized development and operation in the previously less penetrated or weak areas in China has been improving significantly, and we achieved initial results post our organizational restructuring by establishing regional headquarters |
| Since China lifted a travel restriction in late 2022, we saw a strong rebound in leisure travel and a gradual recovery in business travel throughout 2023 |
| By doing so, it could help us to establish a solid foundation to support our business development in a rapid and a sustainable manner |
| At the same time, the Crystal Orange gained a good momentum of new signings as well |
| And the number of its Pipeline hotels has quickly increased to 53 at the year-end, demonstrating the high market recognition and acceptance of the brand and the products |
| So, we definitely will again provide a good service, just like what we discussed before, we're also going to provide a good service to the franchisees and also some of the supportive policy to help them to continuously open good hotels |
| In 4Q 2023, our total revenue for the group increased 51% year-over-year to RMB 5.6 billion, exceeding our previous guidance of 41% to 45% year-over-year growth |
| Compared to net loss in the fourth quarter and the full year of 2022, our operating cash flow improved significantly, reached RMB 2.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023 and RMB 7.7 billion for the full year |
| As the first flagship brand with the longest history within the group, HanTing has maintained its market competitiveness and attractiveness to customers and franchisees through continuous product innovation and upgrades |
| For DH business, full year 2023 blended RevPAR grew 14.5% year-over-year to EUR 71, which was driven by a 1% increase in ADR and a 7% increase in occupancy rate to 63% OTC |
| We will continue to strengthen our footprint in the upper-midscale segment, mainly through our core brands and strive to become a leading brand in the market in the foreseeable future |
| In 2023, our China business achieved a robust recovery with RevPAR recovered to 122% of the 2019 level for the whole year |
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| Continued improvements on both products and service quality would be difficult in the access of a strong support from a strong organizational and digitalization capability |
| The increase of our hotel operating costs was slower than our revenue growth, reflecting operating leverage of the business |
| Also, the percentage number were lower compared to 2022 |
| So, considering that we are opening hotels with higher RevPAR, meanwhile, closing hotels with bad performance |
| But, however, the business traveling demand was relatively slower compared to the leisure in terms of the recovery |
| But however, we don't think the supply chain is going to be the problem of the bottleneck going forward |
| Therefore, given the high base of 2023 RevPAR, now 2024, we're going to be a little bit conservative |
| The proportion of HanTing 1.0 version were significantly declined from 28.5% as of 2020 to only 4.4% as of 2023 |
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