Talking points

Hong Kong's Tourism Board sets out its work plan for the 2013/14 financial year. Board chiefs are expected to face questions about how it will balance its promotional work with concern about the strain on the city's infrastructure caused by a growing number of mainland visitors. Tourism Board chairman James Tien Pei-chun said last month that the organisation was "sandwiched" between rising anti-mainland sentiment and its mandate to promote tourism.

Members of the Legislative Council's panel on welfare services meet to discuss issues including the future of 80 social workers whose government contracts are not being renewed when they expire next month. The community work organisers, who help social security recipients find jobs, are having their duties transferred to non-governmental organisations. A protest by social workers is expected to take place outside Legco before the meeting.