Beijing has sufficient hotel rooms to accommodate the influx of visitors from home and abroad during the 2008 Olympic Games, an official at the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee (BOCOG) said.

Some worry that there won't be enough rooms available to ordinary tourists during the August 8-24 Games after 122 star hotels have been signed up by BOCOG to provide accommodation to the Olympic Family.

"Such worries are unnecessary," said Xiang Ping, deputy director of BOCOG's games service department.

Xiang said that those hotels contracted to BOCOG account for merely 20 per cent of the total in Beijing.

"What we take is only a small fraction of the resources," she said.

The Chinese capital currently has over 700 star-rated hotels and, along with other developments, the total number of hotels is expected to reach 800 with 130,000 rooms before the 2008 Olympics.

Besides star-rated hotels, there are more than 4,000 non-rated hotels in Beijing which can be upgraded to help accommodate tourists, Xiang added.

According to the forecast by the Beijing municipal tourism bureau, 500,000 to 550,000 overseas tourists and 675,000 to 774,000 domestic visitors will descend on Beijing during the Games.