Nearly two-thirds of visitors in tour groups who visited Hong Kong over the Labour Day “golden week” holiday opted for overnight stays, according to industry leaders, who have called for better crowd control measures and guides to be trained to meet the growing demand for more in-depth travel experiences. Fanny Yeung Shuk-fun, executive director of…
The death of a Hong Kong tour guide in a bus crash as he was escorting more than a dozen travellers to an airport in Shanghai on Friday has shocked residents back home. As Hongkongers’ demand for travel continues to soar after the lifting of pandemic-era border restrictions, the safety of tour guides has come…
The death of a Hong Kong tour guide in a bus crash as he was escorting more than a dozen travellers to an airport in Shanghai on Friday has shocked residents back home. As Hongkongers’ demand for travel continues to soar after the lifting of pandemic-era border restrictions, the safety of tour guides has come…
Dozens of mainland Chinese are offering tour guide services in Hong Kong but many of them are believed to be unlicensed or potentially breaching their conditions of stay, fuelling calls for authorities to crack down on the illegal activity. The trend is under the spotlight after the Immigration Department said it had arrested eight mainlanders…
Hong Kong should consider launching an all-in-one app for visitors and using technology to create more engaging experiences for them as the government wants to raise its game through smart tourism, industry leaders have said. Their calls followed a commitment by authorities to leverage innovation and technology as one of four strategies to reinvent the…