V – Accommodation

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V – Accommodation

Chapter V gives an overview of an Applicant City’s accommodation capacity and portfolio in terms of 3, 4 and 5 star hotels. It also investigates a city’s plans for media accommodation.

13 – HOTELS

a. State what point of reference you have chosen as the Olympic Games centre in the Applicant City (e.g. Olympic Village, IOC hotel(s), main hotel cluster, Olympic stadium…) and explain why.

This point of reference must be used to answer the questions below.

b. Questions in chapter V require you to categorise hotels according to the internationally accepted star rating system (5 star, 4 star, 3 star, 2 star) described in the Technical Manual on Accommodation.

Provide a statement from your national tourist board, giving the equivalent rating used in your country and a description of the standard of hotel in each category.

c. Complete Charts 2 A and B indicating the number of hotels and hotel rooms • within a radius of 0-10km from your chosen Olympic Games centre

• within a 10-50km radius of your chosen Olympic Games centre

• within a 0-10km radius of any competition venue cluster/precinct and/or stand-alone venue outside the Applicant City

d. Use the following table to indicate average convention rates in 2007 for 3, 4 and 5 star hotels and for all room types during the month of the Olympic Games, including breakfast(s) and all applicable taxes.

Please also indicate the source of the information provided.

Average 2007 convention rates for the month of the Olympic Games

3 star; 4 star; 5 star

Single, including 1 breakfast

Double/twin, including 2 breakfasts

Suite, including 2 breakfasts

14 – MEDIA ACCOMMODATION

Media representatives should be accommodated in hotels wherever possible.

Wherever the hotel infrastructure of the Host City is insufficient to cater for the needs of the media, the OCOG must provide a media village (or more than one, depending on the configuration of the Olympic venues).

If you envisage the use of (a) media village(s), please answer questions a. and b.

If no media village(s) is/are planned, please describe your concept for media accommodation.

a. Describe your concept for the media village(s), as well as your plans for its (their) post-Olympic use.

b. Specify who will finance the construction of any media village(s), if applicable.