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Travellers arriving by air to stay at Hong Kong’s new 33-storey Excelsior Hotel will get a pleasant surprise when they look for customs clearance. There is none!

Not that passengers will be able to slip anything through Kai Tak airport. A unique feature of the new BOAC associate hotel is that guests’ baggage will go direct from airside to the hotel basement for customs dearance there.

The Excelsior, located at East Point on Causeway Bay, will be the dggest in Hong Kong. The first 400 bedrooms are expected to be ready ?y November 1 and the remaining >O3 rooms should be available for ise by the end of the year.

BOAC Associated Companies has nvested £276,000 in the hotel project or an eight per cent, equity share loldmg. Other equity shareholders ire City Hotels Ltd (10 per cent.) nd Trust Houses-Forte International Td (20 per cent.).

Another feature of the hotel, which /ill make it the best convention centre i North East Asia, is a large con srence complex which will be linked 3 the hotel by walkways.

Two floors of the conference corn lex will each provide banqueting

facilities for up to 1,200 guests, or theatre-style seating for 2,000.

The floors will be linked by closed circuit TV and audio communications systems that will allow 4,000 people to take part in one convention.

The roof on top of the conference floors will have a swimming pool, a coffee area and outdoor reception area.

Instant Offices

Service

“Reserve office, will travel” can now be the watchword of businessmen visiting North America and the United King dom.

This follows the establish ment of a new service by World-Wide Business Centres which offers the free use to BOAC passengers of mail and telephone message facilities in key cities.

World-Wide’s service can also provide fully staffed and furnished offices with a com plete range of business facili ties available on a daily basis.

The centres are located in London, New York, Washing ton, Calgary, Edmonton, Hali fax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toron to, Don Mills, Vancouver and Winnipeg. It is hoped that there will eventually be ex tensions to Australia and South Africa.

Hong Kong's 33-storey Excelsior Hotel.