Hanting Hotel is the founding brand of Huazhu Hotel Group. Mr. Ji Qi, the founder of Huazhu, successfully founded two NASDAQ listed companies, Ctrip (NASDAQ:CTRP) and Home Inn (NASDAQ:HMIN), and launched Hanting Hotels for the third time in 2005, and once named the group "Hanting". In 2012, Huazhu was officially launched as the name of the group.