The number of visitors to Hong Kong in July reached nearly 3.6 million, rising by 31%monthly, more than 80%of tourists from mainland China.

The Hong Kong Tourism Development Bureau issued a press release on the official website to announce the above data on the official website.

The Hong Kong Tourism Development Bureau announced that there were about 3.58 million visits in July and nearly 2.97 million passengers in mainland China.Cumulative calculations, nearly seven months of this year have nearly 16.5 million travelers visiting Hong Kong.

The Hong Kong Travel Development Bureau on Thursday (10th) at the industry briefing meeting to more than 700 Hong Kong travel agencies, attractions, hotels, aviation, retail, catering, exhibitions, cruise and other representatives of tourism and related industries.The latest situation and trend of the Hong Kong tourism industry, as well as the key tasks of introducing the Travel Development Bureau in the next few months.

Cheng Dingyi, the director of the Hong Kong Tourism and Development Bureau, said at the briefing that the tourism industry in Hong Kong is steadily recovering. Visitors visiting Hong Kong will recover the fastest in the Southeast Asian market. For example, the number of tourists from the Philippines and Thailand last month.Each has been restored until the same period before the epidemic; followed by the Chinese mainland market, the level of recovery is about 70 %.On the whole, about half of the overnight passengers are slightly higher than before the epidemic.

Cheng Dingyi said that with the changes in passenger travel and consumption model after the epidemic, the pursuit of depth and diversified experience, the Travel Development Bureau will continue to invite different people to visit Hong Kong in the next few months to experience the diverse posture of Hong Kong in person.Multi -collected tourism fun, creating more positive word -of -mouth and evaluation, assisting in publicity, and using flagship events to attract passengers to Hong Kong.