What are your plans for the week ahead? Are you bracing for the crowds of mainland tourists the government hopes will descend upon Hong Kong for the
Labour Day “golden week” holiday to fill our restaurants and spend in our shops?
Last year, about 766,000 people from the mainland visited during the holiday week. The industry expectation is for over 800,000 to come this year – modest and pretty much what the government
expected last year.
Things did not go very well last year. The May 1 fireworks, meant to kick off the brilliant idea of monthly pyrotechnic shows, turned out to be underwhelming – it was described as
“budget-style” – just like the mainland tourist numbers. And last year’s expectation of 800,000 mainland…
