Beijing officials are planning to allow residents to open bed-and-breakfast and low-budget hostels in their homes, media reports say.
It’s good news for many foreign travelers, who try to book a room online but find it hard to find anything other than a big hotel.
Because of tight government controls, Beijing has never developed the culture of western-style family-run inns or clusters of low-budget youth hostels.
The guidelines for the family hotel project are expected to be released this year.
Officials say the family hotels will provide foreigners with a comfortable, Chinese family atmosphere and give them an insight into China’s family culture.
Last year, more than 3 million tourists from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas visited Beijing.
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"Family Hotels to Open in Beijing" was posted on Thursday, March 29th, 2007 at 10:14 pm.
