Friday, October 01, 2010
Where is the hottest market for new hotels?
So where are the most posh new hotels being built?
Las Vegas? Not
hardly. New York or London? Nope. Dubai? Guess again.
The place
to be is China. Leading the way with major expansion plans are the mega
hotels Sheraton
and Marriott. 
I
have been reading the book China
Road about an NPR reporters' 3,000 mile journey along Route 312 and
his adventures while living six years in China. He learned to speak
fluent Chinese and get to know their culture up close. Stops he makes
along Route 312 are as varied as a Hooters in Shanghai to modern
factories to personal interviews with farmers toiling in the fields the
same way their ancestors did. Interesting read to see how China is
progressing so rapidly to become now the second biggest economy. 
Need
to schedule a trip there one of these days....