China's international hotel boom threaten by low occupancy

BusinessWeek, 16 Nov 2011
Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- The expansion in China of hotel chains including Hilton Worldwide and Hyatt Hotels Corp. may be undermined by low demand as four in 10 rooms sit empty.
China’s occupancy rate was 61 percent in the first nine months of this year, the same as the year-earlier period and the lowest in Asia after India among 15 countries tracked by STR Global, a consulting and research group. Full story