经济学人:印度旅馆:阿鲁沙之家(2)

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　　It now has 4,300 beds in 1,300 rooms spread out over 20 hostels in four cities. 现今，已经有1300个房间4300张床分布在四个城市的20家青年旅社中。

　　The typical tenant² stays for six months. 大部分的房客住六个月。

　　Satyanarayana Vejella, the firm's co-founder, plans to raise another $10m to increase capacity by 12,000 beds in nearly 70 new hostels, all in the next two years. Satyanarayana Vejella，一家公司的联合创始人，计划筹集额外1千万美元用于支付70家新青年旅社的12000张床来来扩展容量，所有这些将在接下的两年内进行。

　　Operating-profit margins³ are in the mid-teens. 其营业利润来源于青年人们。

　　The chain's backers include investment funds who seek social as well as financial returns. 这种产业链的支持者包括这些寻求社会以及经济回报的投资基金。

　　The latter would be improved if the chain dodged⁴ taxes by operating in the informal economy, like much of its competition, but it sticks to the formal side. 如果这种产业链通过在非正规的经济运营逃避税收，其经济回报将会增加，像大部分它的竞争者一样，但它坚持正规的一面。

　　The problems it faces are those confronted by any Hilton or Hyatt: finding properties big enough to offer over 100 beds is hard. 它所面临的问题与所有希尔顿和凯悦酒店所面临的一样：找到可以容纳超过100个床位的够大房间是困难的。

　　Tenants⁵ have to be chased for payments. 租户不得不因为租金而被驱逐。

　　An attempt to cater⁶ to blue-collar workers at an even lower price didn't work out. 以更低价格来迎合蓝领工人的尝试没有成功。

　　So Aarusha is reliant on the IT and outsourcing sectors⁷, which are hiring less eagerly than before. 因此阿鲁沙依赖于IT和外包行业，这些招聘没有之前那么急切了。

　　Aarusha can probably depend on continuing strong demand for a room from which to make sense of it all before people can get their own places. 阿鲁沙也可能依赖于人们对住所不断增长的需求，这些住所可以让人们在有自己的安身之地前有所依靠。

　　The hostels have something of a communal⁸ feel, and parents find them reassuring⁹ because residents put up with not being able to drink, smoke, or mingle¹⁰ with the opposite sex. 住旅馆会有一些共同的感受，也让父母觉得放心，因为住宿者要忍着不能喝酒，不吸烟或者不与异性交往。

　　Soon enough, they will have moved on, taking their aspirations¹¹ and their posters with them. 然后很快，他们将带着他们的愿望和墙上的海报继续出发。

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