Hong Kong hotel, closed due to tourism slump, to offer rooms to people waiting for public housing: source

A three-star hotel in Hong Kong’s Kowloon area will be turned into temporary homes for people waiting for public housing flats in a first of its kind project that offers an economic lifeline for other operators sitting on empty rooms during the coronavirus pandemic, the Post has learned.A source familiar with the matter said the Cruise Hotel, located at 188 Pau Chung Street in To Kwa Wan, had suspended business in 2019 due to the tourism slump that first arose during the anti-government…

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