China Lodging Group, Limited (NASDAQ: HTHT) (“China Lodging Group” or the “Company”), a leading and high-growth limited-service hotel chain operator in China, today announced preliminary hotel operating results for the first quarter of 2012.
In the first quarter of 2012, the Company opened 36 net new hotels, including 9 net leased-and-operated hotels and 27 net franchised-and-managed hotels. As of March 31, 2012, the Company had 675 hotels in operation,