During the first six months of 2018, 173 hotels were open country-wide adding some 35,585 rooms to the existing accommodation supply. It is expected that before the end of the year more 71,788 will be ready to welcome guests.
In the course of the two following years, 548 (2019) and 540 (2020) new hotel openings are expected with the total estimated number of new rooms exceeding 150,000 units. Besides Shanghai and Guangzhou, other cities with a high number of new projects include Chengdu in Sichuan province, in the southwestern part of the country (88 projects/20,051 rooms); Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, in the east, immediately south of Shanghai (79 projects/17,904 rooms); and Suzhou, in the southeastern Jiangsu province, west of Shanghai (74 projects/14,597 rooms).
New hotels appearing in China amaze not only with their utter number; there are some extraodinary projects, too. In Shanghai again, the InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland is ready to open its doors to the first guests after 10 years of construction. It is the world's first underground hotel built into a quarry at the base of Tianmen Mountain.
More Hotels to Appear in China
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Hotels continue mushrooming all around China with Shanghai and Guangzhou leading the race with about 25,000 new rooms to appear in each of the two cities in 2019.