Hotels that are on the official list of recommended accommodation for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar are required to welcome guests in a “non-discriminatory manner” or face termination of contracts, Fifa said on Friday.
A Scandinavian media survey showed that three of the 69 hotels on Fifa’s official list of recommended accommodation will deny entry to same-sex couples.
Twenty other hotels said they would accommodate them as long as they did not publicly show that they were gay, while 33 hotels had no issues on booking same-sex couples.
Homosexuality is illegal in Qatar, which will host the World Cup from November 21st to December 18th.
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- May 14, 2022
