Twice as many mainland Chinese visitors arrived in Hong Kong on New Year’s Day compared with the same day in 2025, with one lawmaker attributing the surge to a three-day holiday across the border this year.
Alan Chan Chung-yee, a legislator and chief operating officer of Miramar Group, also said on Friday that deteriorating relations between China and Japan had driven some mainland travellers to visit Hong Kong instead of Japan.
“To mainlanders, Hong Kong has a better Christmas atmosphere as the…
Hong Kong receives twice as many mainland Chinese visitors on New Year’s Day
