Economy Hotels in China: A Glocalized Innovative Hospitality Sector

While economy or budget hotels have been popular in western countries since the end of the Second World War, they have only emerged as a sector in their own right in China since the mid-1990s. Indeed, as a new service industry sector, economy hotels in China demonstrate important characteristics which can be used to illustrate and help explain China’s current economic progress more generally.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the economy hotel sector in China. It covers macro-l...