Hong Kong residents made 1.84 million departure trips between Thursday of last week and the second day of the Easter break, representing a 10 per cent increase from the same period last year.
Figures from the Immigration Department highlighted the increase from 2024, when residents had made 1.68 million trips by the end of the break’s second day.
The latest data also represented a 20 per cent rise from the 1.4 million trips recorded in 2018, before the 2019 social unrest and the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Hong Kong’s population is currently estimated to be about 7.5 million.
This year’s appetite for outbound travel continued into Easter Sunday, with 302,000 departures already recorded by 4pm. More than half of such departures were recorded at land checkpoints bordering Shenzhen.
The figures from Sunday so far also meant the tally for outbound Easter trips had reached about 2.14 million so far.
