The Government announced today that six hotels will be added to the seventh cycle of the Designated Quarantine Hotel Scheme.

The additional hotels are Empire Hotel Kowloon．Tsim Sha Tsui, Hotel Alexandra, Hotel COZi ‧ Harbour View, Hotel COZi ‧ Oasis, Novotel Century Hong Kong and Royal View Hotel.

They will start accepting room bookings from this week and start service from late May till the end of the current cycle at the end of July, providing about 2,000 additional rooms.

In anticipation of the continuously increasing number of inbound travellers, the Government issued letters to hotels and guesthouses with valid licences last month to invite applications for enlisting as quarantine hotels in the current cycle, with a view to increasing the supply of rooms.

Another 11 hotels, which had initially been used as community isolation facilities and were converted as quarantine hotels, have applied to formally join the current cycle of the Designated Quarantine Hotel Scheme.

As at today, there are 62 quarantine hotels in Hong Kong, providing around 22,000 rooms.