Fellow standing on court outside hotel somewhere in China (9)
I believe the answer is:
manchuria
'somewhere in china' is the definition.
(Manchuria is a region of China)
'fellow standing on court outside hotel' is the wordplay.
'fellow' becomes 'man' (fellow can mean a man).
'standing on court' becomes 'curia' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'outside' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'curia' placed around 'h' is 'churia'.
'man'+'churia'='MANCHURIA'
(Other definitions for manchuria that I've seen before include "Region forming NE portion of China" , "Region of northeastern China" , "far eastern region" .)