Express hotel is a kind of hotel format relative to the traditional full-service hotel. Its biggest feature is that the house price is cheap, and the service mode is "B&; B "(accommodation+breakfast). The United States, which first appeared in the 1950s, is now a quite mature hotel form in European and American countries. The target markets of express hotels are ordinary business people, working class, ordinary self-funded tourists and student groups.

Express hotels are generally based on chain-like franchise or franchise mode, and achieve economies of scale and improve brand value through chain operation, which is also an obvious feature that distinguishes express hotels from other star-rated hotels and social hotels.