HK receives less mainland tourists
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-05-09 10:45
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The Hong Kong Ocean
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Jiang Ling and Zhang Fang, office ladies from Shanghai, visited Hong Kong
with their children.
The two mothers enjoyed their shopping in the
Pacific Place and Times Square, while the two 17 year-old youngsters spent their
happy hours in the Ocean Park and Hong Kong Disneyland. The two parks did not
receive ceiling numbers of visitors during the seven-day Golden
Week.
Jiang and Zhang bought over HK$25,000 (US$1,282) of cosmetic
products, fashions for themselves and sports shoes and jackets for their
children.
Hong Kong shopping centers still had reasonable business growth
though without any "surprising" achievements. The World Trade Center in Causeway
Bay received 48 percent more passengers, and the each shop obtained at least 10
percent more of business volume.
The APM Shopping Center attracted
100,000 passengers during holding "night fair", with over HK$10 million (US$1.28
million) of business volume.
Lukfood Holdings (International) Limited's
business volume of jewelry increased by about 10 percent during the Golden Week,
as the Chinese mainland are greeting the wedding season.
However, Hong
Kong travel agencies are somewhat disappointed with the Golden Week results.
According to a Hong Kong association of travel agencies in charge of inbound
tourist groups, the number of tourists groups to Hong Kong during the Golden
Week decreased by at least 30 percent and it blamed the hiked prices of the
hotel rooms for the decease.
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