Novotel will apologise to transvestite

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After a week-long boycott campaign by gay networks, Novotel Siam Square will today formally apologise to Sutthirat Simsiri-wong, a transvestite who was barred entry to a nightclub at the hotel two weeks ago.

A spokesman for the high-end hotel’s public relations division said a press conference would take place today at the hotel. The general manager of the hotel and a representative of Accor Group, which represents hotel chains including Novotel, will be present.

Sutthirat said he was also invited to the press conference.

“Tomorrow everything will be concluded,” he said in a telephone interview.