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Who owns IntercityHotel?

IntercityHotel is owned by H World (China, NASDAQ: HTHT), which has owned the brand since 2 January 2020.[1]

Evidence: H World Group Limited Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-24, SEC EDGAR, 24 April 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .

Key facts

Current owner
H World Group Limited verified
Owned since
Owner HQ
🇨🇳 China, Shanghai
Origin
🇩🇪 Germany
Founded
1987
Category
Travel & transport › Hotels › Upscale hotels
Parent ticker
NASDAQ: HTHT HKEX: 1179
Trademark registrant
InterCityHotel GmbH (USPTO)
Last verified
· 2 sources

About IntercityHotel

IntercityHotel began in Germany in 1987 and is usually built within walking distance of a railway station or airport. It came to H World with Deutsche Hospitality on 2 January 2020 and has since been rolled out across Chinese cities, positioned for business travellers under the promise of a precise, seamless and efficient stay. There were 159 open and 111 under development at the end of 2025.

What H World's annual report says about IntercityHotel

Sentences about IntercityHotel from H World's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.

How often H World names IntercityHotel in its annual report

A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.

Annual report filedTimes IntercityHotel is named
20266
20255
20247

Trademark record for IntercityHotel

The USPTO record for the IntercityHotel mark lists InterCityHotel GmbH as the owner of record (serial number 74309223). A trademark is often held by a group company rather than the listed parent, so the registrant's name can differ from the owner named above.[2]

Ownership timeline of IntercityHotel

Owners of IntercityHotel over 1987 to 2026 H World 2020–present H World 19901995200020052010201520202025
  1. 2020 – present H World [1] verified

Where IntercityHotel sits in H World

Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.

Where IntercityHotel sits in H World Tree of 21 brands under H World. H World IntercityHotel Blossom House CitiGO Hotel Crystal Orange Hotel Elan Hotel Grand JI Hotel and 15 more

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Other brands owned by H World

H World controls 21 brands on Brandtree, 21 of them in travel & transport.

Also in travel & transport

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Other brands in upscale hotels, and who owns them

H World has more brands in upscale hotels on Brandtree than any other owner: 11 of 57.

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Genting Grand Genting 🇲🇾 Malaysia
Andaz Hyatt 🇺🇸 United States
Avani Hotels & Resorts Minor International 🇹🇭 Thailand
Ascend Collection Choice Hotels 🇺🇸 United States
Bahrain Airport Hotel Gulf Hotels Group 🇧🇭 Bahrain
Lavande Jin Jiang Hotels 🇨🇳 China
Marriott Hotels Marriott 🇺🇸 United States
Arjaan Hotel Apartments Rotana 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

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About the owner: H World

H World is a publicly listed company headquartered in Shanghai, China. Brandtree records 21 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: HTHT and HKEX: 1179.

H World is a Cayman Islands holding company that runs the largest hotel network in China: 12,858 hotels with 1,264,419 rooms across 1,222 Chinese cities and 20 other countries at the end of 2025, on revenue of RMB25.3 billion. It was HanTing Hotel Group, then China Lodging Group, then Huazhu, and took its present name in 2022. Only 573 of its hotels are leased or owned; the rest run under what it calls the manachise model, where a franchisee owns the property and H World supplies the manager. Its European business, bought as Deutsche Hospitality on 2 January 2020, trades under Steigenberger and four other brands. It also develops ibis, ibis Styles, Mercure, Grand Mercure and Novotel hotels in mainland China, Taiwan and Mongolia under brand franchise agreements from Accor, which owns those names.

H World: full profile, brands and acquisition history →

🇩🇪 IntercityHotel and other German brands

Brandtree records a controlling owner for 243 brands that began in Germany. 90 of them (37%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, IntercityHotel among them.

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Frequently asked questions

Who is the parent company of IntercityHotel?

The parent company of IntercityHotel is H World, a publicly listed company headquartered in China.

Is IntercityHotel German or Chinese?

IntercityHotel originated in Germany in 1987, but it is owned today by H World, which is headquartered in China. So IntercityHotel is a German-origin brand under Chinese ownership.

Since when has H World owned IntercityHotel?

H World has owned IntercityHotel since 2 January 2020.

Is IntercityHotel still owned by H World?

Yes. As of 9 October 2026, IntercityHotel is still owned by H World. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.

Sources (2) & corrections

Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.

  1. [1] H World Group Limited Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-24 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 24 April 2026; retrieved 27 September 2026.
  2. [2] USPTO: INTERCITYHOTEL, serial 74309223, registration 1792029 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 28 September 2026.

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