In 2000, Beijing attracted some 67.4 million domestic visitors and 2.82 million overseas travelers. The city's 392 star-rated hotels provided 80,000 hotel rooms. Though the city's present stock of hotels would likely be sufficient to accommodate the huge surge in visitors during the three weeks of the Olympic Games, the Beijing Municipal Tourism Bureau has nevertheless announced that it intends to more than double the city's present stock of star-rated hotels to more than 800 and raise the number of hotel rooms in such hotels by some 60%, to 130,000, by the time the games begin. These plans seem to reflect an anticipated rapid growth in the city's tourism and convention industry over the next six years, as opposed to demand during the Olympic Games.
