2026 Global Hotel Brands Rankings

Snapshot 2026-09-11. The main table is single brands on HOTELS magazine’s 2026 The List, rooms at 31 Dec 2025. JI Hotel is No. 1. Group rooms: hotel groups. Chinese-origin brands: China hotel brands. Luxury properties: luxury hotels. The board pre-fills these 50; another 40 brands sit unranked in the pool.

Global brands by rooms

JI Hotel has 404,616 rooms and is No. 1. Hanting is No. 2 with 393,791. Hampton by Hilton is No. 3 with 359,886. Holiday Inn Express is No. 4. Vienna International and Vienna Hotels are 9 and 10. The magazine lists Hilton’s global Hampton and Jin Jiang’s reported Hampton as two rows; the latter is No. 35 with 78,940 rooms.

How we ranked this

Snapshot 2026-09-11. The main table is HOTELS magazine’s 2026 The List TOP 50 BRANDS, rooms in operation at 31 Dec 2025, taken from the July/August 2026 print table (Joomag p. 53). The official web table sits behind a form. A Chinese trade write-up matches the print top ten; some of its China-brand room counts follow group filings instead of this print page, so this article stays with the magazine. Hampton by Hilton is No. 3; Jin Jiang’s reported Hampton line is a separate No. 35. Group rooms: hotel groups. Chinese-origin brands: China hotel brands. Luxury properties: luxury hotels. Names: docs/glossaries/hotel-brands-global-glossary.md.

Groups by hotel count

The same page ranks companies by open hotels. The first ten are below. Jin Jiang has 15,171 hotels and is No. 1. H World has 12,858 and is No. 2. Group rooms sit on the hotel groups ranking.