A campaigner calling for Tibet to be freed from military occupation has delivered a protest letter to the Holiday Inn in Sutton.
Sutton woman Fiona Gooch delivered a letter to the Gibson Road hotel because the chain's owner, InterContinental Hotels, is behind a project to open a 2,000 room hotel resort in Tibet's capital Lhasa despite concerns over human rights violations in the country.
Tibet is governed by China after it was invaded in 1951 but there are concerns over the way the People's Republic of China enforces its rule over the country with numerous reports of human rights violations.
Protesters, including Ms Gooch, are calling on InterContinental Hotels to scrap its plans to open the hotel in Lhasa by delivering letters to affiliated hotels around the world.
The letter Ms Gooch delivered to the Holiday Inn in Sutton last week said: "I am writing to you to urge you to contact senior management in InterContinental Hotels Group to ask them to withdraw IHG from the deal to operate an InterContinental hotel in Lhasa, the capital of occupied Tibet.
"Until IHG makes this decision, InterContinental hotels across the world will continue to be the focus of campaign actions by Tibet supporters, such as myself.
"IHG’s cynical and irresponsible decision to open this hotel in an occupied and repressed city has already caused considerable damage to its reputation as a responsible business.
"The international boycott campaign it now faces will cause further damage. InterContinental hotels across the world have already seen demonstrations, many more are being targeted by campaigners today, and hotels will continue to face protests and disruptions until IHG withdraws from this deal.
"In the interests of your own business as a hotel and that of IHG as a company we urge you to contact your senior management to ask that IHG cancel its plans to open a hotel in Tibet.
"I also hope that you will support this request out of concern for the plight of the Tibetan people, and respect for their courage in resisting Chinese rule."
Ms Gooch, 40, has Tibetan family and friends and described the country, high in the Himalayas, as "remarkable".
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