A lot more than 10 million vacationers have frequented Hong Kong via the Hong Kong part of Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Specific Rail Url and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge due to the fact the procedure on the two cross-border infrastructures began, according to Hong Kong Month to month Digest Statistics unveiled last week.
The information published by Hong Kong?ˉs Census Data Office reveals that around five.27 million website visitors utilized West Kowloon Station to travel to and from Hong Kong, with visitor arrivals reaching 1.81 million in December. As for the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, more than 4.eighty one million site visitors built excursions to Hong Kong by way of the bridge, with two.21 million in December.
From January to November very last calendar year, customer arrivals in the mainland witnessed a 14.two p.c raise to reach forty six million compared to a similar interval in 2017. In 2018, readers in the mainland invested on normal HKD21,000 for each go to, three per cent bigger than 2017, stated Nielsen Hong Kong, a global marketplace study and study business.
Michael Lee, managing director of Nielsen Hong Kong, predicted that retailing as well as other tourism-related business could possibly flourish a result of the growing number of vacationers with the mainland fueled with the cross-border rail connection along with the bridge.
TOUR Groups Higher than 9M BENCHMARK IN 2018
TOUR Groups Above 9M BENCHMARK IN 2018
TOUR Groups Higher than 9M BENCHMARK IN 2018
MORE THAN 10M TOURISTS VISIT HONG KONG VIA CROSS-BORDER RAIL LINK, BRIDGE