Hong Kong should adopt a top-down, comprehensive ecotourism policy to safeguard the city’s natural attractions, with a designated authority taking the lead, experts have urged, after a surge in Labour Day “Golden Week” visitors overwhelmed ecologically sensitive spots. The call on Monday came after a viral video showed a Mandarin-speaking tourist smoking a cigarette in…
A citywide study should be launched to examine how global warming is affecting plants in Hong Kong and the knock-on effect on the rest of the ecosystem, botanists have urged after witnessing clear changes in leaf-shedding and flowering patterns. Some species, such as the red kapok tree and the flame tree, which should shed all…
The low artificial intelligence (AI) literacy and slow adoption of new technology in Hong Kong’s tourism industry may be holding the city back from realising its full potential as a world-class destination, according to an expert panel at the Redefining Hong Kong conference on culture, sports and tourism, recently hosted by the Post. In 2024,…