Ji says he welcomes international customers, but currently 90% of Hanting guests are Chinese business travelers.

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But Ji believes that foreign competitors will find it hard to compete with Hanting on its home turf.

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Ctrip also backs HanTing, another fast-growing Chinese budgetary hotel chain whose parent company, China Lodging Group, went public on NASDAQ just this March.

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And with 1.3 billion Chinese people, whose average incomes have quadrupled in the last four years, it's small wonder that for the time being, Hanting is concentrating on the local market.

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