About 3.83 million passengers visited Hong Kong in January this year, 72%of the same period in 2018.
According to the Hong Kong News Agency, the Hong Kong Tourism Development Bureau announced the above numbers on Wednesday (February 14).
According to the data of the Travel Development Bureau, the number of tourists visiting Hong Kong is about 750,000.650,000 of them are mainland passengers, surpassing 640,000 people in the same period in 2018.In the first half of February (as of the 13th), the number of passengers was about 2 million. The average daily passenger volume was equivalent to the average month of February 2018 83%.
A spokesman for the SAR government said that about 1,200 mainland travel groups arrived in Hong Kong on the first day of the year to the beginning of the year, involving about 40,000 passengers.The number of mainland tour groups and the total number of participating tour groups exceeds the level of the Spring Festival Golden Week before the epidemic.In addition, according to the industry's report, the overall closure rate of the hotel reached 90%.
Yang Runxiong, director of the Cultural, Sports and Tourism Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, said that in the past few days, the number of passengers visiting Hong Kong has reached the same period in 2018, which meets expectations.The first day of the fell -parade, the fireworks show in the second year, the third junior horse racing, and the fourth day of the Chinese New Year game are very popular, driving the festive atmosphere.
