The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad says that the committee has begun to accept Olympic hotel applications for environmental protection audits and they will begin to review those applications in a few months.
Expert groups will look through the environmental protection projects of those contracted hotels of the 2008 Olympic Games. Hotels must reach the LB/T007-2006 criteria for Green Hotels issued by the China National Tourism Administration. This act aims to encourage hotels to keep doing work in environmental protection.
BOCOG asks all the Olympic contracted hotels to finish their own work in building green hotels before June 30, 2007. Hotels that can't pass the inspection will not be able to attach themselves to the Olympics.
52 of the total 112 contracted hotels for the Olympic Games passed the assessment of green hotels in 2006.
