Hong Kong must improve communications to manage tourists’ expectations of fireworks displays, a tourism veteran has said after visitors from mainland China aired complaints about a scaled-down pyrotechnics display on Labour Day.
It came as Hong Kong saw more than 181,000 arrivals from the mainland on the first day of the May 1 “golden week”.
Timothy Chui, executive director of the Hong Kong Tourism Association, told RTHK that he was “pleasantly surprised” to know that some mainland tourists had come to Hong Kong specifically for the scaled-down fireworks display.
However, some Chinese netizens were not impressed by the festivities, complaining about the scale of the pyrotechnics, while others mockingly called the display a “smoke show” after it fogged up the skyline.
The pyrotechnics displays were announced during the 2024 Budget as part of a HK$1.09 billion…