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A hotel owned by the Hilton Hotel Corp. faced an uproar Friday for refusing to book rooms for a Cuban delegation because of the U.S. trade embargo on the communist-run island.
The Cuban delegation, set to attend a travel fair in Oslo this month, planned to stay at the Scandic Edderkoppen Hotel in the city center, as they had on five previous visits.
However, Hilton bought the 140-hotel Scandic group in March, and the Cubans were informed in December that they would have to find another hotel because of rules under U.S. trade sanctions against Cuba.
The 300,000-member Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees said it would boycott all Scandic hotels in Norway.
