{"id":6923,"date":"2008-08-06T06:04:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T22:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/?p=6923"},"modified":"2008-08-06T06:04:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T22:04:50","slug":"rates-at-beijing-star-grade-hotels-decrease-by-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2008\/08\/06\/6923\/","title":{"rendered":"Rates At Beijing Star-grade Hotels Decrease By 6%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xiong Yumei, vice director of Beijing Tourism Bureau, said in a press conference held in the Beijing International Media Center that the booking volume of star-grade hotels in Beijing increased by 1% but rates went down six percentage points from the end of May 2008.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As of the end of July, room-booking volume kept rising while rates showed a slight decrease; reservations for high-level hotels in the downtown area are higher than those for hotels at lower levels in the Beijing suburbs. For the period from August 7 through August 24, reservations have reached a sustainable peak season level.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, the main source markets of four- and five-star hotels were from overseas, and most domestic tourists chose to book hotels below three-star levels or economy hotels.<\/p>\n<p>Xiong said that Beijing currently has 5,790 star-grade hotels and inns with a total of 665,000 beds, plus 598 resident families that are recommended to be reception locations for spectators and tourists from around the world during the Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xiong Yumei, vice director of Beijing Tourism Bureau, said in a press conference held in the Beijing International Media Center that the booking volume of star-grade hotels in Beijing increased by 1% but rates went down six percentage points from the end of May 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[12759,12997,12870,12871,14066,13146,18283,12783],"class_list":["post-6923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-beijing","tag-beijing-tourism-bureau","tag-budget-hotel","tag-economy-hotel","tag-hotel","tag-olympics","tag-rate","tag-tourist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}