Visitors with Visa Waiver Soar by 59%! Smart Elevators Become "Invisible Weapons" for Hotels to Attract Guests

一、Visa Waiver Dividend Booms, Hotels Face New International Challenges

During the 2025 Dragon Boat Festival holiday, the number of inbound visitors with visa waivers in China reached 231,000, surging by 59.4% year on year. With policy expansion (covering 43 countries with unilateral visa waivers and 29 countries with mutual visa exemptions1), tourists from Japan, South Korea, Europe, and America are flocking to first-tier cities and cultural tourism destinations:

• Language Barriers: Tourists from newly added visa-waiver countries (e.g., Japan and South Korea accounting for 71%) face unfamiliarity with operation interfaces.
• Luggage Pain Points: Foreign tourists have strong shopping demands (exit tax refunds have surged1), and the efficiency of handling large luggage is low.
• Renovation Timeliness: Traditional elevator upgrades require shutdown construction, affecting hotels' peak-season revenue.
  Case: The Pop Mart store on Nanjing Road in Shanghai was "cleaned out" by foreign tourists1, putting sudden pressure on hotel elevators.

二、Smart Elevators: Three Solutions Precisely Matching Hotel Upgrading Needs

1. Multilingual Operation Interface – Covering Languages of New Visa-Waiver Countries

• Supports real-time switching between 12 languages including Japanese, Korean, English, French, and Spanish, adapting to the surge of visa-waiver tourists from Japan and South Korea (the number of South Korean passengers at Shandong ports increased by 117.5%).
• Icon-based commands + voice prompts eliminate operational confusion and enhance the sense of security for overseas tourists.

2. Intelligent Luggage Handling Mode – Adapting to Tourists' Behavioral Habits

• Extends door opening waiting time (from default 10 seconds to 20 seconds), compatible with 28-inch suitcases entering and exiting.
• Intelligent overload adjustment: Identifies luggage weight and dynamically adjusts the load alarm threshold to reduce false alarm rates.

3. Modular Quick Installation – 15-Day Rapid Renovation

• Uses prefabricated components with daily construction ≤4 hours, ensuring zero business interruption.
• Shortens the old elevator renovation cycle to 1/3 of the traditional scheme, helping hotels seize peak seasons like the Dragon Boat Festival and National Day3.

三、Practical Cases: From "Functional Upgrade" to "Experience Value-Added"

• Xi'an Tang-style Theme Hotel: The elevator is implanted with "Chang'an Image" voice broadcasting and multilingual explanations of tourist routes, increasing the repurchase rate by 22%.
• Shenzhen Port Economy Hotel: The luggage mode + exit tax refund guidance screen drives a 30% room premium and is selected into the recommended list of overseas bloggers.
  
• "Elevators are not just tools but also the first business card of a hotel's internationalization."
  — Operations Director of a Chain Hotel
  
• 【Your Partner for International Hotel Upgrading】
  Swift Elevator Export: Customized multilingual intelligent passenger elevators supporting multinational language interaction.
  15-Day Rapid Renewal: Modular renovation with zero business loss.
  Global Tourist Adaptation: Luggage mode/cultural theme UI empowers hotels to gain reputation and premium.