Hong Kong residents are keen on Northern ConsumpPeople go to the mainland, but only about 500,000 passengers enter Hong Kong.The Hong Kong diet and retail operators called hard, saying that this year's resurrection holiday business fell 20 or 30 % compared with previous years.
Scholars of interviewees believe that in recent years, the model of tourists from mainland China has changed from consumption to punch -in and deep tourism. Officials and industry insiders must start from passenger experience to construct a new tourism model with Hong Kong cultural characteristicsEssence
Hong Kong Easter holiday ended on April 1st. Preliminary data from the Immigration Department showed that as of 9 pm on the 1st, more than 2.27 million Hong Kong residents traveled out of the country during the five -day holiday, of which more than 1.9 million people went to the mainland.Only 498,000.
The Hong Kong Headline Daily website reported on Tuesday that due to a large number of Hong Kong people went to Shenzhen Consumption, many shops in Shenzhen are onThe business during Easter is good.There is only one stop from the Luohu Port, which is only one stop, and the dinner time is full of dinner time.
Some people in charge of restaurants revealed that during the long vacation, the restaurant business doubled. After the epidemic, Hong Kong people have become the main source of customers. The restaurant will adjust the purchase volume based on whether the Hong Kong people are on vacation.
Shenzhen Shopping Mall is prosperous, but the Hong Kong merchants are called bitter .Qiu Jinrong, the honorary president of the Hong Kong Grave Estate Food Society, pointed out that the business during the Resurrection holiday this year decreased by 20 % and 30 % compared with previous years.He said that the holidays were "saving money" (making money), but the entire shop only had two or three tables this year.
Tian Beichen, a member of the Legislative Council engaged in the retail business of clothing, also said that his clothing brand company fell 14%year -on -year sales at the resurrection holiday, and the sales of the same period last year also fell 14%year -on -year.
He described the company's business for "biennial falls", reflecting that the out -of -Hong Kong travel travel is strong, but the number of visitors to Hong Kong failed to fill the source of customers. Hong Kong seems to lack attractiveness.
With the continuous consumption boom in the north of Hong Kong people, Create Hong Kong retail and catering industry business.There is a wave of shops.The recent number of followers of the Facebook group of the Facebook group of the social platform, "The Following the Meeting News of the Store in Hong Kong", has risen from about 5,000 to more than 190,000 in just a few days.Some owners and businessmen expressed their hearts in the group, and some of them were discouraged by the Hong Kong retail industry and intended to move to Shenzhen to start a business.
Cai Sixing, a lecturer in the General Scholarship of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, pointed out in the United Morning Post that in the past year, Hong Kong people have become popular in the north to travel and consumption in the north of Hong Kong people.In addition, the prices of goods and services in different major provinces and cities in the mainland are much cheaper than Hong Kong, and the service level is good, attracting many Hong Kong people to experience it north.
Cai Sixing said that in the past, the people of the mainland went to Hong Kong to travel in Hong Kong, mainly consumption, and they would buy daily necessities, cosmetics and luxury goods.EssenceTherefore, the current model of Luke's travel to Hong Kong has been changed from consumption to punch -in and in -depth tourism.
He believes that officials and industry people must start from passenger experience to re -construct new tourism new experiences full of Hong Kong cultural characteristics and cost -effective tourism in order to continue to attract Luke.
Hong Kong Ming Pao disclosed on Tuesday that some developers in Hong Kong have previously required the central government to follow the approach of Singapore and Malaysia through different channels, allowing Luke to exempt visas to Hong Kong to increase passenger flow.However, people who are familiar with the situation in the mainland believe that the central government will inevitably launch measures to go to Hong Kong to visit Hong Kong, because from the perspective of the system and geographical restrictions of Hong Kong, it is impossible for Hong Kong to bear a large number of land bees to go to Hong Kong.Causes a new round of contradictions.
Sources believe that Hong Kong should study the development of high -end tourism and attract high -consumer passenger groups in mainland China and foreign countries to go to Hong Kong, and should not only pursue passenger flow.On this issue, the Hong Kong political and business circles have been striving for the tax exemption of Luke to shop in Hong Kong, from RMB 5,000 (S $ 953) to 30,000 yuan. It is estimated that the central government will be released, but it is not known when it is announced.