Yang Jian and Lu Feiran/Shanghai Daily news

Shanghai government will monitor the price of local hotel rooms and find accommodations in neighboring provinces for the huge waves of visitors expected to attend the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, an Expo official told a forum yesterday, Shanghai Daily reported.

The host city may be short of hotel capacity by as much as 400,000 beds a night during the peak periods and 60,000 beds on non-peak days, Huang Jianing, of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination, said at a forum discussing the development of the service industry in the Yangtze River Delta region.