Beijing hotel rates fall, but bookings rise

In some two-to-four star hotels in areas of the city where demand is weaker, room rates have been reduced for the Olympic period, the company said in a statement.

The report comes a week after an official of the Beijing Tourism Administration said that more than half the rooms in four-star hotels in Beijing over the Olympic period were still available, though bookings were edging up slowly. However, the government has said five-star hotels have booking rates of nearly 80 percent. Over the same period last year, four-star hotels had booking rates of close to 70 percent, but there are now 20 more hotels in Beijing competing for business.

Travelers could be hesitating because of anti-Chinese protests on the international leg of the Olympic torch relay and a huge earthquake in Sichuan.

There have also been warnings from Interpol that terrorists may target the Games, and the government has claimed to have broken up a plot by ethnic Uighurs from China’s restive far western region of Xinjiang to attack the Olympics.

Chinese police are investigating two bomb blasts that killed two passengers on Monday in the southwestern city of Kunming.

The attack, which came amid a nationwide security clamp down ahead of the Aug. 8-24 Games, also injured 14 people in the city, capital of the mountainous province of Yunnan.

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