UK Gay News (http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/07/June/2902.htm)
It was a total shock to hear yesterday, through a Reuters agency report, that a transvestite had been refused entry to the Novotel Hotel in Bangkok.
The Novotel "brand" is part of Accor, a French-based international company which has a robust diversity policy for it hotels across the globe.
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Thai transvestites call for hotel boycott (http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-4801.html)
Pink News UK
29th June 2007 16:15
Joe Roberts
I love it! Like ripples in the pond, they hear the distant "splash, splash, splash" of $$$$ going somewhere else, and scramble to fix it. They know that GLBT spend more tourist $$$ than the average consumer/traveler. $$$ is the ultimate weapon in this game.