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Couples.
That was another market that Keung was thinking of targeting. There were families, business travelers and foreign tourists.
But there was another category that would boom during the holiday season, and that category was couples.
Naturally, there was no problem with straight couples. But the boldest move was to open the hotel industry for same sex couples.
Although in the recent years of China, the society has been slowly accepting gays, lesbians and transgenders, they still suffered discrimination by their orientation at many places. It looked on the outside that the society was progressing, but in reality, the people in LGBT community were still afraid of coming out.
As such, there were no hotels who openly supported the accomodation of same sex couples. Some hotels outrightly prohibited them while some never took a clear stand afraid of the public's opinion and their reputation.