A worker assembles a skylight in a portable Mongolian yurt (traditional tent) at a hotel...

A worker assembles a skylight in a portable Mongolian yurt (traditional tent) at a hotel exhibition in Beijing October 20. Average occupancy rates and profits for mainland Chinese hotels are falling as the supply of rooms continues to rise. Statistics reveal that the supply of rooms totalled 701,000 at the end of 1997 - an 18 percent increase from the year before, while the net profit for the country's star-rated hotels fell by 75.5 percent to 814 million yuan (about $98 million). The yurt is featured at the hotel exhibition as a type of portable hotel room, popular with Chinese tourists.