Provisional legislators embarked on a three-hour brain-storming exercise yesterday to try to rescue the declining tourist industry.
Issuing a call for innovation, members such as Selina Chow Liang Shuk-yee and David Chu Yu-lin suggested the Government bring in Disney to develop a theme park as a tourist attraction.
Independent Paul Cheng Ming-fun said superstars like Jackie Chan should be recruited to promote Hong Kong in Japan, only to be told later that this was what the Hong Kong Tourist Association had recently done.
Choy So-yuk of the Hong Kong Progressive Alliance proposed the Government introduce measures to lure exhibition organisers to host conferences.
And Miriam Lau Kin-yee of the Liberal Party suggested the Government made new transport features, such as Tsing Ma Bridge or the airport railway, a selling point.
The motion, tabled by Howard Young of the Liberal Party, was endorsed unanimously.
He called on the Government to implement measures to promote and develop tourism.