This year’s 2010 Shanghai World Expo will boost room rates by as much as 20 percent, and it’s adding up to 200 hotels nationwide.
Nasdaq-listed Home Inns has 61 hotels in the eastern Chinese city, which plays host to the 2010 Shanghai World Expo May 1 to Oct 31. A total of 192 countries, including the UK, France and Japan, and 50 international organizations will participate, and organizers are expecting 70 million visitors, according to the Expo’s website.
The company expects to add between 180 and 200 hotels this year. That’s up from 145 new hotels last year, when the slowing economy forced the company to miss its forecast of more than 200 hotels.
Home Inns’ shares have declined 8.7 percent this year in US trading, compared with a 1.6 percent gain in the USX China Index, which tracks US companies that derive a majority of their sales from China.
The company had 616 hotels in operation in 120 cities in China at the end of last year. The price for a standard room ranged between 169 yuan and 299 yuan in different cities.
Wendy, Shanghai Expo,2010 Shanghai Expo
The lake is surrounded by hills on three sides and faces downtown Hangzhou on the fourth side. The peaceful West Lake, the jewei of Hangzhou, has (Bai and Su), which separate the lake into five parts. The lake also had three manmade islands: Three Pools Mirroring the moon, Mid-lake Pavilion and Mr. Ruan Yuan’s Mount all in the outer lake.
West Lake is famous not jut for its beautiful waters but also for its surrounding hills with irregular shaped peaks and dense forests that provide gorgeous fall foliage.
Wendy, Shanghai World Expo, 2010 Shanghai World Expo
Foreign visitors can expect convenient visa applications when they come to China for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo this year, organizers of the upcoming event pledged on Mar.8th.
“The policy of making it convenient for overseas and foreign tourists to visit the Shanghai Expo is already in place,” Zhou Hanmin, deputy director of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo Executive Committee, said on the sidelines of the annual session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference National Committee, China’s top political advisory body.
And the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has given us great support and already notified Chinese embassies and consulates across the world to adopt an easy visa policy during the period.
Wendy, Shanghai Expo, Shanghai World Expo
Oh, my baby, I love you!
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- Shanghai International Mei Flower Show in Century Park
Shanghai International Mei Flower Show
Shanghai International Mei Flower Show
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Nearly 300 Miss Etiquettes began a 2-month training course Monday in east China’s Zhejiang Province, preparing them for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.
After the World Expo opens on May 1, the Miss Etiquettes will welcome visitors from around the world in east China’s Shanghai Municipality.The 2-month training includes three stages, namely military training, etiquette training and real time practices, with the first and the third practices held in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang, and the second held in Shanghai. And the purpose of the training is to prepare the Miss Etiquettes in knowledge, etiquette and ability so that they can properly and fully represent China.
Wendy, Shanghai Expo, Shanghai World Expo
The Most Beautiful City in China
Hangzhou, capital of zhejiang Province, is one of China’s seven ancient national capitals.
When Marco Polo came to Hangzhou in the 13th century, he declared that “it is the most beautiful and elegant city in the wrold”. There is a popular saying:”Above there is heaven, below there are Hangzhou and Suzhou.”Hangzhou’s “heavenly” beauty attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists to its exquisite West Lake area each year to enjoy the placid lake, beautiful gardens, reflecting pools, lavish temples and friendly lakeside teahouses.
Wendy, Shanghai Expo, Shanghai World Expo
Lanterns in the shape of the China Pavilion
Ten sets of lanterns in the shape of Expo 2010 pavilions lit up Shanghai’s Longhua area February 27, adding a splash of color on China’s traditional Lantern Festival.
The pavilions on show included those from China, Russia, Australia, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Luxembourg, Romania, Poland and USA.
All the lanterns at the Longhua Lantern Fair were made by craftsmen in Zigong, Sichuan Province.
Wendy,Shanghai Expo, Shanghai World Expo
The Shanghai municipal legislature has begun the discussion of a draft regulation to mandate rabies vaccinations for dogs, as the city braces itself for the opening of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo in May.
The cost for the rabies vaccination, at around 20 yuan per dose, is to be paid by dog owners, according to the draft regulation. The vaccination must be administered every year.
According to this draft regulation, a small silicon chip will be implanted into those dogs who receive the vaccine for the first time to track the effect of the drug.
Wendy, 2010 Shanghai Expo, 2010 Shanghai World Expo
United Kingdom’s 2010 World Expo pavilion will offer a preview of the 2012 London Olympics by incorporating an “Olympic Corner” in its display.
The area will feature a large “green map” of the 2.5-square-kilometer Olympic Park in Stratford in East London, which will be turned into the largest city park in Britain.
The park will be developed into a complex incorporating entertainment and sports after the event as an important legacy of the 2012 London Olympics. And it will provide people and wildlife a perfect habitat with its grasslands, gardens, forests and rivers, said David Higgins, Chief Executive of the London Olympics Delivery Authority.Meanwhile, sports buffs can also meet several UK sports stars at the corner. Their names are yet to be revealed.
Green coverage of London has reached 40 percent, making it one of the greenest cities of its size in the world.
The 6,000-square-meter UK Pavilion is a cube-like structure, known as the “Seed Cathedral,” with the area around designed to look like wrapping paper.
Wendy, Shanghai Expo, 2010 Shanghai Expo
