As a hotel owner or hotel industry professional, you need to make your guests feel relaxed and comfortable when they’re staying in your property. You want to please your guests by making them experience the best service, food, and accommodation. And this includes providing them with the best quality hotel supplies.

For your guests’ enjoyment, you need to stock up on all the best hotel supplies, from basic supplies found in every guest room to decorative outdoor furniture. These include cleaning supplies, room amenities like soap, shampoo, lotion, slippers, shower caps, bathrobes and bath towels, tea and coffee makers, drinking glasses, tissue boxes, laundry bags, flower vases, and so much more.

That’s why it’s important to find hotel supplies manufacturers or sellers that will provide quality and affordable supplies for your hotel business.

Ⅰ、Why Buy Hotel Supplies from China?

So where do you buy quality wholesale hotel supplies? China, of course!

Big and small businesses alike have been importing a wide variety of products from China. Look at the labels of products around you and you’ll see that most of them were made or assembled in China.

So whether you’re operating a bed and breakfast, a motel, boutique hotel, or a luxury hotel, you can source all your hotel supplies requirements in China.

Ⅱ、Where to Buy Hotel Supplies in China

Once you’re convinced that you’ll source your hotel supplies from China, it’s time to search exactly where to buy hotel supplies in China.

Here are two options in locating manufacturers or distributors for hotel supplies:

Wholesale markets

Expos or trade fairs

Either way, you get information in one place from a lot of suppliers. But you need to carefully plan to make the most of these business opportunities. Set up appointments in advance so you don’t waste time just looking around. Focus on meeting the most important people for your business.

Ⅲ、Hotel Supplies Wholesale Markets in China

Most hotel supplies wholesalers are found in Guangzhou ShaXi International Hotel Articles City,Guangzhou Nantian International Hotel Facility Trading Center and Guangzhou Xinji Hotelex Hospitality Suppliers Center.

Note that the wholesale market has two types of sellers. One is the manufacturer or factory representative sales office and the other is a trading company. Both have a stock warehouse nearby. Often, the former offers lower prices and better quality products. By going straight to manufacturers, you will save money by cutting out the middlemen.

Guangzhou Shaxi International Hotel Articles City occupies an area of 120,000 square meters.

You can find everything related to the catering, restaurant, and hotel industries at this extensive wholesale market. Many companies can customize your products if the order is large enough.

Guangzhou ShaXi International Hotel Articles City is along Shaxi Road, Lopu, Panyu, Guangzhou, China. You can get there via the Guangzhou Metro, Line 3 to the Xiajiao station. After that, by taxi, which takes around 5 to 8 minutes.

Guangzhou Nantian International Hotel Facility Trading Center, formerly Nantian Trading City, covers an area of about 200,000 square meters. It has 1,500 shops, 30,000 square meters of warehouses, and 15,000 square meters of parking lot.

Its main products include:

• Kitchen equipment and utensils of Chinese and western styles
• Buffet restaurant facilities
• Porcelain and glass products
• Freezers, cold room/storage, ice-maker
• Bathroom and bedroom equipment and products
• Wool, knitted products
• Fire-protection equipment, locks, safes, transport carts
• Machine cleansing equipment, cleaning liquids and products
• Health care products
• Plastic products
• Elevators, headboard control panel, lighting etc.

Ⅳ、Hotel Industry Exhibitions and Trade Fairs

Hotel industry exhibitions and trade fairs provide visitors with a broad view of the whole market and industry. These events gather the important players from the hotel industry. Visitors get to see many products in one place and time, enabling them to evaluate and compare suppliers by attending demonstrations and asking detailed questions.

1.Hosfair – International Hospitality Supplies Fair

Location:   China Import and Export Fair Pazhou Complex, Guangzhou

Website:    www.hosfair.com

2.FHC Food and Hotel China

Location:    Shanghai New International Expo Centre, SNIEC, Shanghai

Website:    www.fhcchina.com

3.Guangzhou Hotel Equipment and Supply Exhibition

Location:   China Import and Export Fair Pazhou Complex, Guangzhou

Website:    http://www.hotelbao.cn/

4.Hotelex – International Hospitality Equipment & Food Service Expo

Location:    Shanghai New International Expo Centre, SNIEC, Shanghai |

China National Convention Center (CNCC), Beijing

Website:    en.hotelex.cn

Ⅴ、How to Search Hotel Supplies from China Online

It’s fairly easy to search online for suppliers of hotel supplies from China. Your old reliable friend Google will help you. You can also go directly to large e-commerce sites like Alibaba, Global Sourcing or DHGate to find manufacturers or wholesalers for hotel supplies.

From the site’s search bar, enter product names or keywords for the products that you need. Once you get the results page, narrow down your search to find exactly what you’re looking for.

For example, you can first type “hotel slippers.” Many types of hotel slippers will appear, from which you can narrow down depending on your specifications, like disposable slippers or plush luxury hotel slippers.

See if the site has a page where you can specifically look for wholesalers. Another option would be to go to the RFQ (Request for Quotation) page if there’s one, where you can ask for quotations for your particular needs.

Once you get quotations from several suppliers, the next step would be to compare quotes and then get in touch with those suppliers that you find interesting.

Ⅵ、Tips When Buying Hotel Supplies from China

You’ll find it easier to import from China if you follow these helpful tips:

Ⅶ、Problems You May Have When Buying Hotel Supplies from China

Quality control and delivery delays remain to be the top problems when it comes to buying hotel supplies from China.

Product quality expectations do not quite match the actual products delivered. There will be wrong sizes, wrong colors, wrong quantity, incorrect logo, etc. For delivery date problems, products are not received within expected delivery dates.

In both situations, expectations differ from reality.

Often you blame the supplier for not conforming to agreed terms. But to make sure these situations are avoided, it’s also important for you as a buyer to set realistic expectations.

Do not focus solely on getting the lowest price because you risk getting poor quality products and poor sales support services.

What importers worry about most is the products received are not what they order.How to solve this problem?

Ⅷ、Hire A Chinese Sourcing Agent

Many companies doing business with Chinese suppliers owe much of their success to hiring a good Chinese sourcing agent.

Dealing with Chinese suppliers can be difficult. That’s true if you’re not familiar with how they do business in China. And if you don’t speak and understand the local language.

Working with qualified China sourcing agents can be a big help in finding and verifying suppliers, negotiating contract terms, and providing shipping and customs clearance support. Get an agent that already specializes in sourcing quality hotel supplies.

In a word,tt’s not hard to understand why many large international companies are willing to have their own agents in China.Even pay some percent of commission,they can save great time and money.

Conclusion

You can find quality hotel supplies in China that are also reasonably-priced. Investing in the services of a local sourcing agent will make doing business in China so much easier.

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