Hong Kong has recorded over 471,000 inbound mainland tourists in the first three days of the Lunar New Year break. A tourism industry representative said about 200 mainland tour groups visited the city during the period, representing around two-thirds of pre-pandemic levels.
A total of 471,490 mainland visitors came to the city between Saturday and Monday – the first Lunar New Year holiday since all Covid-19 travel restrictions were lifted last April. Both Sunday and Monday saw over 180,000 mainland tourist arrivals, according to figures kept by the Immigration Department.
Speaking on an RTHK programme on Monday, Timothy Tsui, the executive director of the Hong Kong Tourism Association, estimated that around 200 mainland tour groups arrived in the city each day during the Lunar New Year break, which was about two-thirds of the levels in 2017 and 2018.
He said that a peak of inbound mainland tourists on…
