At the St. Regis luxury hotel in downtown Mexico City, Alejandro Botti is busy putting his Mandarin lessons to use.
Guests from China are increasingly checking in, and the front-desk agent is the only employee here who can speak the language. The hotel’s management says it might eventually hire a Chinese interpreter to meet the growing need.
“You have no choice. You have to be ready,” Bernard de Villèle, general manager of St. Regis Mexico City, said in an interview at the hotel.
Last year, 60,500 Chinese nationals flew to Mexico, nearly 65 percent more than . . .
