Four Points by Sheraton Guangzhou, Dongpu, has opened its doors in the heart of Guangzhou.

Singapore-based Ascott, the international serviced residence owner-operator, is opening its second serviced residence in Beijing, the Ascott Raffles City Beijing.

The first luxury city resort in Nanjing, Regalia Resort & Spa Nanjing, has opened in the Chenguang 1865 leisure block beside the Qinhuai River.

According to foreign media, Guo Dongjie, the vice president of Ctrip.com vacation services, has said that the company would focus more on the vacation businesses and plans to buy travel agencies in ten tourist destinations.

Kenny Lin has been appointed as the new general manager of San Want Hotel Shanghai.

The Westin Beijing Chaoyang recently hosted the popular actress, film star and singer, Fan Bingbing. Fan was in Beijing on a visit to promote a lifestyle brand. On arrival at the Westin Beijing Chaoyang she was welcomed by the general manager of the hotel, Daniel R Aylmer.

Novotel Wuhan Xinhua Hotel has announced the appointment of Eric Li as the new director of sales and marketing.

Beijing, China (September 29, 2009) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — MyRSS.cn, the leading free Chinese social media news monitoring tool for the public relations professionals and a service of Xinwengao.com, has enlarged its pool of aggregated news to now include monitoring of media sources in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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HNA Hotels & Resorts is planning to acquire Jumeirah HanTang Xintiandi and Conrad Shanghai, two luxury hotels in Shanghai Xintiandi, the construction of both of which has been stopped due to the financial crisis.

Star Alliance members Air China and ANA will commence a codesharing agreement on flights operated by both airlines between Beijing Capital International Airport and Tokyo's Haneda Airport from October 25, 2009.