The 1.25 million mainland Chinese tourists who visited Hong Kong during the Lunar New Year holiday “intensified the city’s ambience” and boosted the catering and retail industries, the government has said.
The Immigration Department recorded around 1.436 million inbound visitors through multiple sea, land and air control points between February 10 and 17, the government said in a statement on Sunday. Around 1.255 million tourists – or close to 90 per cent – were from mainland China, where its residents enjoyed an eight-day break during Lunar New Year.
The daily average of mainland Chinese visitors stood at around 157,000, exceeding figures in the Labour Day holiday in May and China’s National Day “Golden Week” in October last year.
The city saw the most number of visitors last Monday, the third day of Lunar New Year, recording around 186,000 visitors…
