He said figures for those heading to Europe and Southeast Asia had doubled compared with the holiday period last year, while trips to popular destination Japan had only climbed by about 10 per cent because of the already high base number from 2023.
Immigration Department data showed that from Friday to Sunday, the city recorded a combined 1.51 million outbound trips made by residents – 700,808 on Friday, 453,946 on Saturday and 358,300 on Sunday.
The total was nearly five times the number of inbound trips made by mainlanders and other visitors over the period, which stood at 330,248. The city logged 101,052 trips on Friday from such visitors, 136,051 on Saturday and 93,145 on Sunday.
The number of arrivals in the first three days of Easter break this year dropped 35 per cent compared with 2018, before anti-government protests rocked the city and the…
