Nearly 600 'Olympics Family Hotels' have opened for business in Beijing, providing 726 guest rooms for more than 1,000 visitors to the Games, mainland media reported yesterday. 'Out of 1,118 candidates, 598 households have been chosen to host visitors during the Olympic period,' the Beijing Times quoted Zhou Shuqi , a tourism official, as saying. The rates at these guesthouses vary between US$60 (410 yuan) and US$80, depending on their quality.