Hong Kong Tourism Booming With 13 Million Visitors So Far
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The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) announced that the preliminary visitor arrivals for June were 2.75 million, with a daily average of about 92,000 visitors.
Cumulatively, about 13 million arrivals were recorded in the first half of 2023. The HKTB expects Hong Kong‘s tourism will continue to recover steadily in the second half of the year.
However, the pace of recovery will be affected by various challenges, such as air capacity, the global economy, currency exchange rates, etc.
Provisional visitor arrivals for June 2023:
| Markets | June | January to June |
| Mainland | 2,156,627 | 10,112,234 |
| Non-Mainland* | 591,861 | 2,771,645 |
| Short-haul | 321,467 | 1,917,312 |
| Long-haul | 154,237 | 728,346 |
| New markets | 31,514 | 125,987 |
| Total | 2,748,488 | 12,883,879 |
| Daily average | 92,000 | 71,000 |
The HKTB will continue to enhance the promotions in various source markets by deepening the “Hello Hong Kong” campaign and staging mega events such as the “Hong Kong Cyclothon”, “Hong Kong Wine and Dine Festival”, “Hong Kong WinterFest”, “Hong Kong New Year Countdown Celebrations”.
The HKTB will also support the city’s international events, to attract visitors to Hong Kong and enrich their experiences in the city.
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, is a city and a special administrative region in China.
With 7.4 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated territories in the world.
Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island in 1841–1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and was further extended when the United Kingdom obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898.
Hong Kong was briefly occupied by Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II. The whole territory was transferred from the United Kingdom to China in 1997.
Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.
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