China’s hotels get a Labour Day holiday windfall, raising room rates up to tenfold to cash in on post-Covid travel surge

Hotels in China have hit the jackpot during the Labour Day holiday with a huge surge in post-pandemic demand allowing them to raise their room prices more than tenfold in some cases.

Such is the wave of pent-up demand that some hotels have had to hire part-time workers to meet the needs of vast numbers of tourists after three years of travel curbs to fend off the Covid-19 pandemic.