More than 430,000 Hongkongers streamed through border checkpoints on Sunday as they returned home on the final day of the Ching Ming Festival long weekend. According to the Immigration Department, over 550,000 people had entered Hong Kong through various crossings as of 9pm, with more than 430,000 being residents. Outbound travellers totalled over 370,000. As…
Hong Kong’s tourism minister has brushed aside concerns that offering multiple-entry visas to more than 10 million Shenzhen residents might trigger a resurgence in parallel trading, speaking a day before the new policy takes effect. Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Kevin Yeung Yun-hung said on Saturday that the visa scheme would benefit Hong Kong’s…
Hong Kong welcomed nearly 1 million mainland Chinese visitors in the first five days of the National Day “golden week” break, a 35 per cent increase from the same period last year, according to local immigration authorities. Director of Immigration Benson Kwok Joon-fung also estimated on Sunday that the city would record 300 million arrival…