Number of visitors to Hong Kong’s Ngong Ping 360 more than triples following pandemic
- Managing director Andy Lau says attraction served 1.38 million guests in 2023 – a 255 per cent increase over 2022
- Bulk of visitors to attraction were from Asia, with levels having recovered 97 per cent compared with 2019
The number of visitors to Hong Kong’s cable car attraction Ngong Ping 360 more than tripled in 2023 over the pre-pandemic levels, with the largest share of tourists coming from Southeast Asia.
Managing director Andy Lau Wai-ming said on Tuesday the attraction served 1.38 million guests in 2023 – a 255 per cent increase over 2022, and a 95 per cent recovery compared with pre-pandemic levels.
“We spent quite a bit of effort doing promotion work on social media, so we have seen good performance from the mainland,” he said.
Lau also said the “Crystal+” cabins introduced in December 2022, with fully transparent tempered glass bottoms and four walls, had a utilisation rate of 80 per cent during the summer holiday period. Throughout the Lunar New Year holiday, the utilisation rate was “over 100 per cent”.
“What we mean by that is, people had to queue for quite a while to get onto those cabins,” he said.
Given their popularity, the company planned to increase the number of Crystal+ cabins from the current seven to 20 by the end of the year – an upgrade that would cost as much as “tens of millions of dollars”, according to Lau.
The bulk of the visitors to the attraction were from Asia, with levels having recovered 97 per cent compared with 2019.