If there's one U.S. industry that's found a home in China, it's the lodging business. The 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2010 Shanghai World Expo offered obvious, one-time incentives for expansion in marquee destimnations. Now the growth is especially visible in so-called second- and third-tier cities most Americans have never head of, but where more Chinese are joining the middle class and staying overnight for business or pleasure — some for the very first time.

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