China the new growth spot for Asian hotels
From Asia Times Online: Hotels in China continue to fuel revenue per available room (revPAR) growth throughout the Asia-Pacific region, according to the latest hotel performance data from the Hotel...
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Shanghai’s oldest luxury hotel closed for US$65m makeover – Tan Bee Leng
From Channel News Asia: Shanghai’s oldest luxury hotel, Peace Hotel, has been closed for a US$65m restoration and is expected to reopen in 2010. The century-old hotel may become more luxurious, more...
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Five-star hotel on Beida campus draws criticism – Guan Xiaomeng
From China Daily: Peking University Science Park is drawing criticism from instructors and students for building a five-star hotel on campus, as reported by Beijing Youth Daily. The uproar was over...
View ArticleModern Luxury In An Ancient Land
Newsday reports on the new crop of luxury hotels popping up all over China: You used to be able to count the number of China’s five-star hotels on five fingers, so the emergence of world-class...
View ArticleSeven-star Luxury Hotel Triggers Controversy
A seven-star hotel to be built in downtown Hangzhou City, a well-known tourism resort in China, has triggered heated debate among local residents. The extravagant hotel, with an estimated $600 million...
View ArticleShanghai’s Peace Hotel Back in the Swing of Things
The Los Angeles Times writes about the refurbishment of Shanghai’s historic Peace Hotel: There is no other landmark in Shanghai so closely associated with the city’s storied history. The hotel’s heyday...
View ArticleForeign Innkeepers in the Chinese Countryside
Amid China’s booming tourism industry, The New York Times looks at the number of foreign entrepreneurs opening boutique hotels in the Chinese countryside: More hotel rooms are being built in China than...
View ArticleCall for Cull of Officials to Curb Waste Censored
The Wall Street Journal’s James T. Areddy reports that Beijing’s campaign against wasteful spending continues to bite, with 182,000 officials punished and billions of yuan saved last year. A growing...
View ArticleU.S. Officials Check Out of Chinese-Owned Waldorf
New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel, whose opening in 1931 was said by U.S. President Herbert Hoover to mark “the measure of a nation’s growth in power,” was acquired last year by China’s Anbang Insurance...
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Netizen Voices: G20 Prep Leaves Hotel Guests in Cold
Hangzhou is already deep into preparations for the G20 Summit in September, the first to be hosted in China. A dilapidated historic house has gotten a fresh coat of paint (though probably nothing...
View ArticleForeign Firms Under Fire Over Taiwan, Tibet References
The past week has seen a series of moves by the Cyberspace Administration of China and other official bodies to police sensitive political references on foreign companies’ websites, in part based on...
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