China's budget hotel company Home Inns & Hotels announced its unaudited financial results for the quarter ended March 31st, 2008 ans said total revenues for the quarter increased by 94.9% year-over-year to RMB357.0 million, including revenues of RMB28.2 million the recently acquired Top Star hotel chain. Read More >

Guangzhou's Panyu District will welcome three new five-star standard hotel projects in Zhongcun, Nancun, and Shiqiao. Read More >

GreenTree Inns announced the launch of its first outlet priced at about RMB99 per night in Shanghai. Read More >

Asia Luxury Travel Market says it is almost double the size of the 2007 inaugural event. Read More >

InterContinental Hotels Group announced the launch of its twelfth IHG Academy in China to train hospitality professionals. Read More >

Super 8 Hotels is accelerating its direct owned property development in China, starting with five directly owned properties to open in the next 60 days, and is offering cash rewards to the general public for introducing properties which are successfully acquired by Super 8. Read More >

China Southern Airlines, the newest member of SkyTeam, hs signed separate deals with Langham Hotels International, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Jinling Hotels & Resorts and the Guangzhou Garden Hotel to include them in the airline's frequent flyer program, Sky Pearl Club. Read More >

Super 8 Hotels has been appointed by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and the Beijing Tourism Bureau as a member of the Beijing Olympic Village Accommodation Service Management Team. Read More >

China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines have signed an agreement in which the two airline companies will cooperate in ten areas, including route sharing, plane purchasing and ground service. Read More >

Hualian Group will enter China's coffee cafe retail sector and will cooperate with Britain's Costa Coffee to develop the Costa cafe chain. The first Costa cafe will soon open in Beijing. Read More >