Hong Kong ‘golden week’ tourist hits and misses: nicer workers, e-payment poor

Hong Kong ‘golden week’ tourist hits and misses: nicer workers, e-payment poor

Some mainland Chinese tourists visiting Hong Kong during the Labour Day “golden week” holiday have expressed surprise at improvements in service attitudes but believe the city’s e-payment system could be better. They said waiters and waitresses were no longer rude while serving and spoke better Mandarin after notoriously impolite restaurant staff, shop workers and taxi…

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Pandas and Bun Festival among Hong Kong’s ‘golden week’ trends for mainland tourists

Pandas and Bun Festival among Hong Kong’s ‘golden week’ trends for mainland tourists

Hong Kong businesses have made extensive efforts to entice mainland Chinese visitors during the five-day Labour Day “golden week” holiday, but many tourists will opt to take recommendations from social media platform RedNote. The government anticipates around 840,000 mainland visitors between Thursday and Monday, about 10 per cent more than last year during the same…

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