Beijing's Olympic dream turns into disasterous nightmares -- Visa
limits undermine Beijing's tourism hopes

International Herald Tribune

Visa limits undermine Beijing's tourism hopes

By David Barboza
Friday, June 20, 2008

BEIJING: The plush lobby of the Kerry Center Hotel in Beijing is usually
crowded with foreign guests this time of year, most of them lounging in
Centro, a hip bar, listening to jazz and sipping martinis, or queuing up
in the taxi line after power dinners at the Horizon restaurant.

But Thursday evening, Centro had only a sprinkling of guests in a hotel
whose occupancy rate is typically close to 100 percent during this time
of the year. Tonight, the duty manager said after tapping a few computer
keys, it stood at just 63 percent.

"I really don't know what happened," said Sun Yin, the duty manager.
"Something strange has been going on."

On Jun 23, 10:42 am, Micky Wong wrote:
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LOL, what a joke. A terrorist plot to kidnap journalist.
HAHAHAHAHA. In Beijing no less. I think that's a typo, and should
read "a CCP plot to CENSOR journalists". Yeah, that's much more
believable...