Hong Kong travel agencies are capitalising on the National Games by offering package tours for mainland Chinese visitors to attend sporting events in the city this month, with golf and rugby proving most popular. Timothy Chui Ting-pong, executive director of the Hong Kong Tourism Association, said tour groups organised by his company were generally smaller…
Hong Kong police say they are armed with enough personnel and resources, including 600 drones and 200 trained dogs, to ensure the coming National Games go off without a hitch. And while there was no specific intelligence suggesting terrorists would target the city during the Games, contingency plans were in place to deal with emergent…
The new CEO of Volleyball World has vowed to continue growing the sport in Asia by bringing more tournaments to the continent, with events in mainland China and Hong Kong potentially on the cards. Ugo Valensi took over as the head of Volleyball World last month, after spearheading Grand Slam Tennis, the body running the…
Hongkongers hoping to catch the likes of Cheung Ka-long, Ryan Choi Chun-yin and Ceci Lee Sze-wing in action at the National Games in November must act swiftly when tickets for their events become available in late September, the city’s Games chief has said. Tickets for fencing and track cycling, two of the eight competition sports…
Hong Kong’s coordination office for the National Games is studying whether to adopt a real-name system for tickets at prices ranging from a few dozen Hong Kong dollars up to about HK$500 (US$64). Yeung Tak-keung, head of the National Games Coordination Office, said on Saturday that tickets would be sold from August on a unified…
Tickets for the National Games will be available in Hong Kong from August, three months ahead of the event, to synchronise with sales in Macau and on mainland China, the head of the local coordination office has said. Yeung Tak-keung, head of the National Games Coordination Office, said on Tuesday that the tickets would be…