Hong Kong’s tourism minister has slammed a political commentator’s “fallacious” assertion that the city’s tourism policy had driven out high-value establishments and yielded weak economic returns.
Citing tourism figures, Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Kevin Yeung said more than 760,000 tourists from mainland China crossed the border in Hong Kong over the Labour Day “Golden Week,” with more than 190,000 visiting on May 2, marking a record high for single-day arrivals this year
“This has brought business to the tourism sector and other related industries, and though not every business has been able to benefit, we understand that those trades are generally satisfied,” he said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.
The tourism chief also hit back at the assertion that the government policy…