Hong Kong’s bet that horse racing and other sports can help the city become a premier destination for high-end travellers appears to be paying off. Recent success at the track and with overseas outreach should spur authorities to keep drawing visitors.
Nearly 10,000 tourists, a record turnout, were in the stands at Sha Tin Racecourse for FWD Champions Day on Sunday. The Jockey Club said the nearly 42,000-strong crowd was 37.5 per cent larger than the previous year.
More than 8,000 visitors were from the mainland, and nearly 1,100 from overseas. About 200 high-net-worth people from Japan attended.
Jockey Club chief Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges said numbers were boosted by collaboration with China Travel Service and a pilot initiative to…
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