Why Luxurious Five Star Hotels In China Are Deliberately Making Themselves Crappier

Why would a five-star hotel want to make itself a less luxurious and more crappy? That's the questions observers asked themselves this week after Chen Miaolin, vice president of the China Tourism Association, was quoted by Xinhua news agency as saying that 56 five-star hotels had pledged to to downgrade themselves to a four-star rating last year. “I’ve been in the business for decades and I’ve never seen this before,” Chen reportedly told the Chinese publication. The comments were appare...