Part 2 - LA84 Foundation

decided to secure 7,700 rooms from
tourist hotels, and 2,300 rooms from
the Olympic Family Town. For this purpose,
the committee designated 30
hotels, in addition to the Headquarters
Hotel. In July 1987, hotels for the
Olympic Family were designated in the
four provincial cities where yachting
competition and football preliminaries
were scheduled; one each in Pusan,
Taegu, Kwangju and Taejon.
The original projection of accommodation
facilities for the Olympic Family
included 10,000 rooms for 15,000 persons,
but the final adjustment made
on February 23,1988 set the number
of persons at 18,690 and the rooms at
12,059. The tourist hotels accounted
for 7,959 rooms of the projected total
rooms, and Olympic Family Town for
4,120 rooms. To accommodate NOC
invitees from East European bloc
countries, it was decided to secure
600 rooms of the Family Town
separately from the final projection.
The SLOOC took measures to keep
the 30 official hotels including the
Headquarters Hotel from receiving
bookings for the 7,959 rooms, accounting
for 70 percent of their total rooms
numbering 11,385, for 35 days before
and after the Games period.
The following guideline was applied in
selecting the 18,690 Olympic Family
members to be accommodated at the
Headquarters Hotel, 30 official hotels
and Olympic Family Town: 1) priority
was given to those eligible for the issuance
of accreditation cards (IOC, IFs,
NOCs, OCOG, host cities and
observer teams), 2) broadcasting per-
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8. Hotel Shilla, the Headquarters Hotel,
behind the Korean-style guest house.
9. Intercontinental Hotel, an official
Olympic hotel. On the right is the Korea
Trade Center building.
10.11. The Seoul Plaza and the Hyatt
Regency, also official hotels for the
Olympics.