Hotels worldwide prepare for Chinese visitors

Major hotel brands have expanded their restaurant menus to include Chinese dishes like congee and dim sum and some Holiday Inn hotels around San Francisco and Chicago offer in-room rice cookers on request. Australia’s coastal Wyong region outside Sydney, a pretty stretch of pristine beaches and wildlife-filled wetlands, isn’t high on the travel agenda of most Chinese tourists. But the local mayor and a Chinese businessman have big plans to change that by building a A$500 million ($480 million) theme park that will include a full-size replica of Beijing’s Forbidden City and a nine-story temple housing a giant Buddha.