Travel
Approximately 1.4 million travelers concerned Hong Kong throughout the eight-day mainland Spring Festival golden week, consisting of 1.2 million visitors from the mainland, according to the executive director of the Travel Industry Council.
Fanny Yeung informed an RTHK program on Saturday that of the overall, about 79,000 individuals gone to in trip groups – 83 percent of which remained over night.
Yeung was positive with the reality that 15 percent of those from trip groups had actually remained 2 or 3 nights in the SAR – an uptick from in 2015.
“Although the variety of incoming travelers dropped, they remained here for longer and we more than happy to see this phenomenon,” Yeung stated.
She stated the city requires more trip guides who can speak foreign languages other than Chinese and English.
Yeung stated some travel bureau were not able to host group trips from nations like Thailand, as they might not discover guides who speak Thai.
Speaking on the very same program, tourist sector legislator Perry Yiu stated the hotel tenancy rate reached about 90 percent throughout the golden week, and space rates dropped about 10 percent compared to in 2015.
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