Lingnan Holdings

Guangzhou Lingnan Group Holdings Co., Ltd. is a listed company on the main board of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, with stock code SZ000524 and stock abbreviation "Lingnan Holdings" (formerly "Dongfang Hotel"). The company is the large tourism industry operation and integration platform, brand business innovation and development platform, and investment and financing management capital platform under Lingnan Group. It is a comprehensive tourism group whose main business covers business travel services, accommodation, exhibitions, scenic spots, and automotive services. Its member enterprises include GZL International Travel Service, Lingnan Hotels, Guangzhou Garden Hotel, Guangzhou Dongfang Hotel, China Hotel, and Dongfang Automobile Company.
On November 18, 1993, the company's stock was listed on the main board of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. In June 2009, Lingnan Group became the controlling shareholder of the company. In June 2014, the company acquired 100% equity of Lingnan Hotels, transitioning from single hotel operations to a hotel management group. In May 2015, the company's Chinese name was changed from "Guangzhou Dongfang Hotel Co., Ltd." to "Guangzhou Lingnan Group Holdings Co., Ltd.", and the stock abbreviation was changed from "Dongfang Hotel" to "Lingnan Holdings". In February 2017, the company completed a major asset restructuring, acquiring GZL, Garden Hotel, and China Hotel, building a complete tourism industry chain covering travel agencies, hotels, exhibitions, scenic spots, tourism transportation, and souvenirs, and upgrading from a hotel management group to a comprehensive tourism group. Currently, Lingnan Holdings ranks among the top ten listed companies in the A-share tourism and hotel industry in terms of market value.
In terms of business travel services, GZL has more than 500 subsidiary branches and service outlets nationwide, with destination management covering over 100 countries and regions worldwide. It is a comprehensive travel agency that has won the national tourism quality management honor "China User Satisfaction Tripod" and is a service enterprise that has won the "Guangdong Provincial Government Quality Award", a quality award established by the Guangdong Provincial Government. It has been rated as a national tourism service quality benchmark unit for three consecutive years. In the accommodation industry, Lingnan Hotels is a leading domestic hotel brand operation and management company, with core brands including "Lingnan Garden Hotel", "Lingnan Oriental Hotel", "Lingnan No.5 Hotel", "China Hotel", "Lingnan Jiayuan Resort Hotel", "Lingnan Jiayuan Chain Hotel", "Lingnan Starlight Camp", "Lingju Creative Apartment", and "Linghui High-end Customized Boutique Hotel", covering sub-brands such as platinum five-star, boutique design, leisure and vacation, urban central business district, non-standard accommodation, and economy chain hotels. Its management scale ranks among the top in the South China region and it is among the top 30 Chinese hotel groups. In the exhibition industry, the company has rich exhibition resources and obvious comprehensive advantages in the industry chain. It insists on the integration of conference and exhibition business as the breakthrough for industrial development, incentive travel as the focus for scale development, and event activities as brand highlights. It has long-term hosted and organized a number of large-scale and influential exhibitions and events, including the Guangdong International Tourism Industry Expo, the Asia-Pacific and China competitions of the Bocuse d'Or World Cooking Competition, the Cantonese Culture Carnival, and the China-France Sun Trip Cycling Challenge.
Looking to the future, Lingnan Holdings is committed to the development vision of "National brands, customer value, world synchronization, satisfying consumers' pursuit of quality life". Through innovative development and capital operation, it aims to build a pan-tourism ecosystem integrating global tourism destination resources, tourism transportation resources, and partner resources, with online and offline integration and sharing, and to become a modern comprehensive business travel brand operator that is highly trusted and satisfactory, leading nationwide and internationally renowned, with industrial and international competitiveness.