HONG KONG – Hong Kong wants to be more Muslim-friendly and is making a push to offer a greater range of halal food options across its dining scene, as it seeks to woo more tourists from South-east Asia, the Middle East and Muslim-majority regions in mainland China.
“We would like to attract more of the entire Muslim travel market… We hope they will come to Hong Kong, and then perhaps venture further into mainland China,” Hong Kong Tourism Board executive director Dane Cheng said on a recent visit to Dubai in May.
“But we need to up the game in terms of being Muslim-friendly. We need more halal restaurants and other facilities, (and) we are now on top of this,” he told The National, a newspaper in the United Arab Emirates, at the Arabian Travel Market trade show.
The government has since late 2023 been trying to tap the wealthy Middle Eastern market to diversify the Hong Kong economy that has slowed after the 2019 mass protests, Covid-19 curbs and strained US-China…
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