Food, Beverage & Catering

HOTELEX Shenzhen 2026

深圳国际酒店及餐饮业博览会

Dates
COMPLETED
13–15 Oct 2026
Venue
Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center
Exhibition area
180,000 m²
Exhibitors (expected)
2,000+

About the show

HOTELEX Shenzhen is the Shenzhen edition of the HOTELEX series of hotel and catering trade shows, and the group’s flagship for South China. It covers ten sectors of the hotel, restaurant, café and bar supply chain: coffee and tea, beverages, food and catering ingredients, catering equipment, tableware and tabletop supplies, bakery, pastries and light meals, group-meal supply chains, wine and spirits, private-label and contract manufacturing, and gifts and lifestyle products.

The show is built around export trade, smart supply-chain sourcing, retail and new-product launches, and is staged within Connexion Shenzhen, a combined food-service, hotel, furniture, health and lifestyle exhibition that gathers the organiser’s show brands for the Greater Bay Area market. HOTELEX runs the Shenzhen event alongside its Guangzhou edition, the two forming twin South China bases.

What’s on display

  • Coffee and tea
  • Beverages
  • Food and catering ingredients
  • Catering equipment
  • Tableware and tabletop supplies
  • Bakery, pastries and light meals
  • Group-meal supply chains
  • Wine and spirits
  • Private-label and contract manufacturing
  • Gifts and lifestyle products

Reference

Co-located shows
The expo is part of Connexion Shenzhen, the organiser’s combined catering, hotel, furniture, health and lifestyle exhibition, and five other shows run at the same venue: a food and ingredients fair, a hotel and commercial-space exhibition, a coffee culture festival, a bar, western-food and drinks exhibition, and an urban lifestyle show.
Competitions
A competition programme runs alongside the exhibition, including an international chefs’ elite contest, a Greater Bay Area mooncake-innovation competition, the China qualifiers and finals of the World Coffee Championships for cupping, coffee in good spirits and latte art, a chocolate championship and a world trend-drinks contest for the Shenzhen division.
Conferences and forums
The concurrent conference programme covers supply-chain exports for the food and beverage industry, beverage-retail partnerships, tea culture, central-kitchen construction and development, green and sustainable hotel and catering development in the Greater Bay Area, high-quality food and agricultural trade, and the future of rural homestay businesses in Guangdong.
Festivals
Two consumer-facing festivals are staged with the show: the HOTELEX Shenzhen international coffee, wine and food culture festival, and the global-flavour tea drinks culture festival.

Practical information

Organizer
Shanghai Sinoexpo Informa Markets International Exhibition Co., Ltd.
Opening hours
09:00–17:30 on 13–14 October, last entry 17:00; 09:00–16:00 on 15 October, last entry 15:30
Visiting address
Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention CenterNo. 1 Zhancheng Road, Fuhai Street, Bao’an District, Shenzhen

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