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Mainland tourists skip Hong Kong for Singapore as city misses out on golden week bonanza
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For months, Ye Rongchang and his wife had been planning to travel to Hong Kong for the week-long National Day holiday.
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When the unrest started in June, he did not expect the protests to last until October, and had to reluctantly shelve his travel plans.
“As mainlanders who support the central government there’s no point in going there,” the 72-year-old retired accountant from Shanghai said. “We only want to go to places where we can communicate and engage with the locals.”
He planned to visit Singapore instead.
The retiree is among thousands who have changed their travel plans for the “golden week” holiday. And destinations such as Singapore are benefiting as mainland Chinese tourists skip Hong Kong.
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