Gaming hotels continue to expand, and digital intelligence operations are becoming a necessity!

The e-sports market is expected to approach 200 billion dollars in 2025, and the user scale will continue to grow steadily.

In 2022, China's e-sports market was affected by the impact of the external environment, and the development of e-sports events and related offline activities was relatively conservative, and the overall market size fell for the first time in many years, about 157.9 billion yuan, -5.6% year-on-year.With the orderly recovery of domestic social production and life and the accelerated pace of consumption recovery, it is expected to drive the e-sports market back to a stable growth track, and the market size of e-sports is expected to reach 1975 billion yuan in 2025, with the CAGR reaching 7.2% between 2023 and 2025. The scale of e-sports market is expected to reach 1975 billion yuan in 2025, and the CAGR between 2023-2025 will reach 7.2%. On the user side, the scale of e-sports users in China continued to grow in 2016-2023, and the development of the industry has entered into a mature and stable period, with the rate of user growth stabilizing, and in 2023, it is expected to reach 478 million users.

Gaming hotels continue to expand with their outstanding advantages, giving rise to the new business mode of "gaming + accommodation".

With the growth of the domestic e-sports market, the fusion of e-sports and other industries has given rise to a large number of innovative businesses, including "e-sports + accommodation" derived from theGaming HotelIt is one of the fast-growing segmentation tracks in recent years. Compared with traditional hotels, gaming hotels have the advantages of good privacy, intellectualization, diversified entertainment, strong social atmosphere, sufficient activity radius and better hardware equipment, etc. They are expanding faster and the number continues to increase, and according to the estimation of the Tongcheng Research Institute, it is expected that they will exceed 20,000 by 2023.

The management model and distribution system of gaming hotels differ significantly from that of traditional hotels.

Gaming hotels are a combination of culture and tourism. The upstream industry chain of domestic gaming hotels mainly includes gaming game merchants (game developers and sellers) and gaming equipment suppliers,Hotel Intelligent Guest Control Systemsupplier Changxing Intelligence as well as gaming hotel operators. Gaming equipment vendors include both suppliers that provide hardware and service providers that offer digital intelligence solutions to gaming hotel owners. Gaming hotel operators include both professional gaming hotels and traditional hotels that provide gaming-themed rooms. Currently, gaming hotels are commonly marketed through third-party distribution channels such as OTA platforms (e.g., Ctrip, Tongcheng Travel, etc.), life service platforms (e.g., Meituan), and social media (WeChat, gaming communities, and short-video platforms such as Jitterbug). Hotel intelligent guest control system then core host, sensor,Smart Switch, intelligent voice, intelligent entertainment, intelligent security, intelligent customer service system and intelligent robot. Contained from the industry chain, it is not difficult to see that gaming hotels compared to traditional hotels, in addition to the differences in equipment procurement, the management mode and distribution system also have a greater difference.

Digital intelligence transformation has become a just need for gaming hotels, and there is a large market opportunity for scenario solutions.

Specialized gaming hotels and gaming-themed rooms in ordinary hotels constitute the main supply side of the current domestic gaming hotel market, with the former mainly represented by specialized gaming hotels such as Love Gaming and the latter mainly represented by ordinary chain hotels. On the one hand, the market share of specialized e-sports hotels only accounted for about 36 % in 2022, due to the difference in operation mode, a large number of ordinary hotels have the demand for specialized e-sports hotel management; on the other hand, more e-sports hotels have the intention of intelligent transformation in 2022 compared to 2021 and the proportion of unintelligent is as high as 76%, and the digital intelligent transformation has become the immediate need of e-sports hotels. On the other hand, more gaming hotels have intelligent transformation intention in 2022 than in 2021, and the proportion of unintelligent is as high as 76%.