Participants take part in a Year of the Dragon parade during celebrations for Chinese Lunar New Year in Macao Special Administrative Region, on February 12, 2024. Photo: VCG
Hong Kong and Macao have both announced relevant data to prove that their tourism industries have all recovered to the level before the COVID-19 pandemic and also the 2019 turmoil, as the two special administrative regions all received more than 1.4 million and 1.3 million inbound visitors which greatly boost local economies, and experts and professionals of related industries said security, stability and public order are the most important elements to bring tourists back.
Macao, with only about a population of 686,600, can receive almost the same amount of tourists as Hong Kong, which has a population of more than 7 million and a bigger area of land. Some analysts said that apart from those unique tourist resources of the city, a key reason to its attraction is that Macao had already finished the national…
