During the long vacation of the Easter holiday, a large number of Hong Kong people went north to travel. Huang Jiahe, the president of the Hong Kong Catering Union Association, said that the outbound crowds took away the consumption power, which led to a decrease of more than 40 % of the Hong Kong catering industry.Industry confidence.
Comprehensive Sing Tao Daily Hong Kong Business Daily reported that the Huang family and Monday (April 1) said on the Radio program of Hong Kong that the outbound crowds have a great impact on the business of Hong Kong's catering industry.The day of the day is more than 20 % less, and the night is more than 40 %.Compared with last year's Easter, the business is more than 30 % less.
The Huang family pointed out that after the resumption of customs clearance in Lu and Hong Kong last year, many Hong Kong people still stayed in Hong Kong for consumption, but later consumption in north gradually became a fashion.This has the greatest impact on Hong Kong's high -end consumption, because most of them are people with high consumption power, and more than 6 million people staying in Hong Kong are not that they have no consumption power, but they are obviously not as good as those who leave Hong Kong.
The Huang family and frankly, "At present, the confidence in the catering industry in the short term is shaken."He continued that the economic activities held by the government can indeed drive tourists and local citizens to consume, but the main benefit is the area around West Kowloon, Tsim Sha Tsui, Jinzhong, and Victoria Harbor.The number of people who arrive is only Ji Niu a hair compared to the number of travelers.
The Huang family said that there is also a wave of consumption in Macau in the north, but the Macau government has made a doctrine to attract mainland customers to spend. The market is very booming. Instead, Hong Kong can only rely on the people to fight alone.He suggested that the Hong Kong catering retail tourism industry cooperates with Macau in the future to design some linkage tourism activities for survival.
A four -day resurrection holiday is the peak period of Hong Kong people's travel travel.According to the statistics of the Hong Kong Immigration Department, the day before and the first three days before the Easter (March 28 to 31), a total of more than 2.039 million citizens left the country, of which 70,800 citizens were out of the country on March 29, of which more than 525,800 wereTo the north of the land port, Hong Kong has set a new high since the resumption of customs clearance at the beginning of last year.
The Hong Kong Entry Department predicted that Monday (April 1) will be the peak of citizens' return to Hong Kong.About 11 million people went to the country.
