Chinese check-ins
Hoteliers contemplate the arrival of a growing group of travellers
WEMBLEY is not London’s most appealing suburb. The area around the stadium is untidy and architecturally uninspired—good for facilitating the movement of tens of thousands of football fans, but hardly a place to linger. The shops of the West End are a 25-minute tube journey away. To Chinese tour groups, though, hotels there like the Holiday Inn and the Ibis are honeypots.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Chinese check-ins”
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