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Bridge, rail link pull highest ever October mainlander arrivals at 4.65 millionĬhan also promised that the government would improve coordination within departments so as to avoid the daily life of local residents being affected. He also said the opening of a new control point at Liantang-Heung Yuen Wai next year would further strengthen Hong Kong’s position as a leading destination for tourists. In his blog piece, Chan said the tourism boom could be “clearly felt” with the opening of the bridge and the cross-border high-speed rail in recent months. With this trend, it is certain that the annual visitor arrivals for this year will surpass 60 million, breaking the 2014 record,” Chan wrote.
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“With the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, visitor arrivals for November were expected to further go up. It bounced back to 58.47 million last year. The number dropped slightly to 59.31 million the following year and fell further to 56.66 million in 2016. Hong Kong received a record 60.8 million visitors in 2014. That was up 15.4 per cent from the October 2017 figure. Of the arrivals, some 4.65 million, or roughly 80 per cent, were from mainland China. Latest Hong Kong Tourism Board statistics showed that some 5.88 million visitors came to Hong Kong in October, a rise of 11.5 per cent compared with the same month in 2017. “Under the present uncertain economic outlook triggered by international trade frictions, keeping the sector growing is too important to overlook in our efforts to stabilise the economy,” Chan wrote. Record numbers ride Hong Kong tram after mega bridge opens
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In a piece posted on his official blog on Sunday, Chan stressed that the tourism sector accounted for about 4.5 per cent of Hong Kong’s GDP and employed 6.7 per cent of the city’s workforce.
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The Greater Bay Area scheme seeks to develop Hong Kong and Macau with nine cities in Guangdong province into an innovation hub.