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The average daily room rate - an index to gauge the prosperity of hotels - in Beijing, Hong Kong and Macao continued to grow despite the weak global economy, international real estate service provider Knight Frank said in its latest report.
Hong Kong experienced the largest year-on-year growth among the five cities in the first half of 2012, with ADR gaining 12 percent, followed by Beijing with a growth of 11.4 percent, according to the report.
"We believe China's tourism market will continue to grow rapidly in the next few years despite the gloomy global economic outlook," said Thomas Lam, head of Research at Knight Frank Greater China.
Around 425 million people visited tourist sites around the country during the Golden Week holiday starting on Sept 30, up 40.9 percent over the same period last year. Revenue from tourism hit 210.5 billion yuan ($33 billion), an increase of 44.4 percent year-on-year, figures from the National Tourism Administration showed.
Robust economic development and growing numbers of tourists in China make it an attractive hotel market in need of more hotel rooms. International hotel operators have shown strong confidence in China's market and are pursuing aggressive expansion plans.
For example, Accor's upmarket brand Pullman is planning to open 25 hotels in the country by 2015, on top of its 14 existing hotels. Club Mediterranee plans to open five new resorts on the mainland by 2015, which will make China its second largest market in the world.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts has opened 40 hotels in China over the last five years, with an additional 90 in the works. InterContinental, which now operates 162 hotels in China, has an additional 143 under development.
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