Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has initiated a review of Hong Kong's tourism policy. It must be a radical reassessment, as the old model is no longer relevant. Continued growth in tourism is...
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17 Apr 2013
Taiwan will let in more independent travellers from the mainland as attractions ranging from diving to dental work push the headcount near a legal limit of 1,000 arrivals per day.
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Taiwan's once-quiet travel industry is embracing a steady increase in tourist arrivals from the mainland, but faces new strains from the growing influx of visitors, who threaten to overrun the...
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I am partial to sharing off-colour humour with my colleague, Alex Lo. So when he told me recently that he had witnessed a Caucasian man wearing a rugby jersey urinating in the gutter near a bus...
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2 Apr 2013
They said they let their infant daughter defecate into a plastic bag because she had an upset stomach and “couldn’t go in the morning”.
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Mainlanders are growing less satisfied with Hong Kong as a holiday destination, according to an annual index compiled by Polytechnic University's school of hotel and tourism management.
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His escape plan was short-lived as he was quickly pulled out of the water by a boat passing by.
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Retailers have told the government to build more shops rather than restrain the number of mainland visitors, who are continuing to fuel growth in the city's retail sector.
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According to Jason Yap, the Asia-Pacific chief executive of Travelzoo, a Nasdaq-listed company that gives information on tourism deals to subscribers, the shift in the industry will be away from...
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The chief executive cautioned the tourism industry against blindly pursuing growth in visitor numbers, as a travel agency boss at the centre of recent scandals failed yet again to appear at the...
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The tourism watchdog on Monday rebuked a travel agency manager accused of leaving mainland tourists stranded without hotel accommodation after he claimed it had been impossible to verify whether...
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