Starwood has signed an agreement with Beijing Yongtai Hotel Management Company to open a 200-room aloft hotel in Beijing in 2009.

Shenzhen-based Vienna Hotel Group, which has already opened three new hotels in January 2007, has now turned its eyes into the budget hotel sector.

China National Tourism Administration says that its tourism departments at various levels in the country had received 11,570 total complaints about travel in 2006, and increase of 49.03% from 2005.

The booming economic development in Hebei Province has attracted the the budget franchised hotel chain Super 8, which has opened its first franchised hotel in Shijiazhuang, the capital city of Hebei Province.

Shanghai is going 'Grand' with the launch of Accor's Grand Mercure hotel brand, bringing a distinctive new style to the cosmopolitan commercial center of China.

The booming domestic and inbound travel scene in China has created an ever increasing demand for hotel accommodation. In particular, the budget hotel sector is growing rapidly, with more brands entering the China market.

Peter Lum Kwok Wah has been appointed the new Director of Sales & Marketing at the Hotel Equatorial Shanghai.

Shanghai Jin Jiang International Hotel Development Limited Company has signed an agreement with its shareholder Shanghai Jin Jiang International Company for increasing the investment of its economy brand, Jin Jiang Inn.

Air China will offer seven round-trip charter flights from Beijing to Taipei, plus one flight from Beijing to Kaohsiung, during the upcoming Spring Festival period of February 14 to 26.

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