Who owns Zleep Hotels?
Zleep Hotels 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
- 🇩🇰 Denmark
- Category
- Travel & transport › Hotels › Budget & midscale hotels
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: HTHT HKEX: 1179
- Trademark registrant
- H WORLD HOLDINGS SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. (USPTO)
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Zleep Hotels
Zleep Hotels is a Danish economy chain that came to H World with the Deutsche Hospitality acquisition on 2 January 2020. Its own marketing leans on Danish design — simple, timeless interiors in durable natural materials — and H World describes it as well known and successful in Scandinavia. It is the smallest brand in the group by count, with six hotels open and seven under development at the end of 2025.
What H World's annual report says about Zleep Hotels
Sentences about Zleep Hotels from H World's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Zleep Hotels Zleep Hotels , our economy hotel brand, is a well-known and successful hotel brand in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe offering service and design at a great rate.
As of December 31, 2025, we had six Zleep Hotels in operation and an additional seven Zleep Hotels under development.
How often H World names Zleep Hotels 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.
Trademark record for Zleep Hotels
The USPTO record for the Zleep Hotels mark lists H WORLD HOLDINGS SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. as the owner of record (serial number 88658420). That name matches the owner named above.[2]
Ownership timeline of Zleep Hotels
Where Zleep Hotels sits in H World
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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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
- Blossom House (2009)
- CitiGO Hotel
- Crystal Orange Hotel
- Elan Hotel (2014)
- Grand JI Hotel (2025)
- HanTing Hotel (2005)
- Hi Inn (2008)
- IntercityHotel (1987)
- Jaz in the City (2015)
- JI Hotel (2010)
- Joya Hotel (2013)
- Madison Hotel (2019)
- Manxin Hotel (2013)
- MAXX (2018)
- Ni Hao Hotel
- Orange Hotel
- Song Hotels (2021)
- Starway Hotel
Other brands in budget & midscale hotels, and who owns them
The 37 brands in budget & midscale hotels on Brandtree belong to 12 owners. The largest is Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, with 8; H World has 8.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Days Inn | Wyndham Hotels & Resorts | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Comfort Inn | Choice Hotels | 🇺🇸 United States |
| 7 Days | Jin Jiang Hotels | 🇨🇳 China |
| Fiesta Inn | Grupo Posadas | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| Courtyard by Marriott | Marriott | 🇺🇸 United States |
| ibis | Accor | 🇫🇷 France |
| First World Hotel | Genting | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| Hampton by Hilton | Hilton | 🇺🇸 United States |
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.
🇩🇰 Zleep Hotels and other Danish brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 100 brands that began in Denmark. 25 of them (25%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Zleep Hotels among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Zleep Hotels?
The parent company of Zleep Hotels is H World, a publicly listed company headquartered in China.
Is Zleep Hotels Danish or Chinese?
Zleep Hotels originated in Denmark, but it is owned today by H World, which is headquartered in China. So Zleep Hotels is a Danish-origin brand under Chinese ownership.
Since when has H World owned Zleep Hotels?
H World has owned Zleep Hotels since 2 January 2020.
Is Zleep Hotels still owned by H World?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Zleep Hotels 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] 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] USPTO: ZLEEP, serial 88658420, registration 7093864 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 28 September 2026.
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