III. Hotel and Catering Services

1. Number of Corporation Enterprises and Employees

By the end of 2008, there were altogether 145,000 corporation enterprises engaged in hotel and catering services with a total employment of 5,852,000 people, up by 56.3 percent and 36.4 percent respectively as compared with those at the end of 2004.

Of the total number of corporations in hotel and catering services, the number of hotel was 54,000, that of catering was 91,000, accounted for 37.2 percent and 62.8 percent respectively. Of the total number of employees working in the corporations in hotel and catering services, the share of hotel was 45.6 percent and 54.4 percent for catering services (see table 7).

Table 7 Number of Corporation Enterprises and Employees Engaged in

Hotel and Catering Services

 

	Number of Corporation Enterprises (10,000)	Employed Persons （10,000）
Total Hotel Services Tourism Hotels General Hotels Other Hotel Services	14.5 5.4 1.8 3.3 0.3	585.2 267.1 190.0 69.1 8.0
Catering Services Restaurants Fast Food Beverages and Cold Drinks Others	9.1 7.5 0.6 0.4 0.6	318.1 262.6 37.3 5.5 12.7

 

Of the total number of corporation enterprises in hotel and catering services, the number of state-owned corporation enterprises was 10,000, accounted for 6.9 percent, that of the collective enterprises was 7,000, accounted for 4.8 percent, the private enterprises 100,000, accounted for 69.0 percent, enterprises with funds from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan 2,000, accounted for 1.4 percent and 2,000 for foreign funded enterprises, accounted for 1.4 percent.

Of the total number of employees, the proportion of those in state-owned corporations accounted for 11.8 percent, that of collective corporations was 3.1 percent, the private enterprises 49.4 percent, enterprises with funds from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan accounted for 5.2 percent and 7.2 percent for foreign funded enterprises (see table 8).

Table 8 Number of Corporation Enterprises and Employees in

Hotel and Catering Services by Types of Registration

 

	Number of Corporation Enterprises （10,000）	Employed Persons （10,000）
Total Domestic-funded State-owned Collective-owned Share-holding Cooperatives Joint Ownership Limited Liability Corporations Share-holding Corporations Ltd. Private Other Domestic Corporations Corporations with Funds from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Foreign-funded	14.5 14.1 1.0 0.7 0.2 0.1 1.3 0.3 10.0 0.5   0.2 0.2	585.2 512.6 69.2 18.2 7.0 1.9 94.2 17.7 289.2 15.2   30.3 42.3