According to data provided by Bureau of Statistics of Beijing, the revenue of star-grade hotels in the city decreased by 9.7% year-on-year in 2009.

Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts has signed an agreement with Chongqing Guest House Company to manage a hotel in Chongqing that is scheduled to open in late 2011.

Swiss company Hydrovision is planning to invest CNY2.5 billion in building an underwater hotel in Xiaoyue Bay, Sanya.

According to reports in local media, Beijing Capital International Airport will launch six model rooms for convenience stores in its three terminal buildings before the end of 2009 to realize a unified convenience store image.

At a promotional campaign jointly held by the Consulate General of Nepal in Lhasa, the Nepal Tourism Board, and the China Tibet Tourism Bureau, an official from the Consulate General of Nepal promised to 22 travel wholesalers that in the near future travel agencies in Tibet would be able to offer visa services to Chinese [...]

French-based Sofitel has announced that it has signed three new contracts for hotels in the eastern and southeastern regions of China. These new Sofitel properties are already under construction and are scheduled to begin opening from the end of 2010.