Another in a number of tourism scandals to hit Hong Kong was that of hotel guests being evicted from the Tatami Hampton Hotel after Bank of East Asia (BEA) repossessed the property.
Baffled tourists from Australia, Denmark, Italy, Argentina and China
were instructed to evacuate the premises after a long-drawn-out dispute
between BEA and Labour Buildings, which run the hotel, over an unpaid
HKD80m loan. "How could something like this happen in Hong Kong?" a
tourist from China was quoted as saying. Labour Buildings, a previous
investment division of Taiwan's Kuomintang political party, claimed it
was given the loan to curry favour with the ruling party 10 years ago,
media reports.
Television images showed the hotel doors being locked up, with a notice
saying that the hotel had been taken over by lawyers representing the
bank. BEA had no comment about the matter.
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