On 17 february, the reference network reported that hong kong ranked 7th in a report on the most popular destinations in the asia-pacific region. However, hong kong lags behind singapore, bangkok, and taipei in generating tourism revenues。
On 17 february, the south china morning news website in hong kong reported that the first asia-pacific destination indicator report published on 16 february by credit card issuer mastercard showed that hong kong remained one of the most popular tourist destinations in the region。
In 2015, a total of 8. 3 million tourists from abroad stayed in hong kong for at least one night, bringing $5. 218 billion to the hong kong economy. If you add up the length of their stay, it's like 27. 8 million nights. The figures do not include passengers from mainland china。
Hong kong has defeated beijing and shanghai on all the indicators in the report, recording 4 million passengers between 2014 and 15 years, and hong kong is twice as high as beijing。
But not everything is good news. Hong kong lags far behind sydney and tokyo in terms of the total number of nights spent by tourists. The total number of nights in singapore was 55 million, twice as high as in hong kong。
Shortly before the results were released, hong kong disneyland just announced that they had recorded their first losses since 2011. It lost hk$ 148 million in 2015. For three years, the gardens were profitable in billions。
The total number of visitors to the park decreased to 6. 8 million last year, falling by 9. 3 per cent per year, and the managing director of disneyland expects it to remain a difficult year in 2016。
Hong kong ranks ninth in total passenger consumption, behind taipei and bouji, with only one third of total tourism revenues in bangkok. Total tourism revenue in bangkok was $1. 52 billion。
“tourism in the asia-pacific region has flourished in recent years, and government, business and tourism authorities need to work closely together to maintain tourism competitiveness.” anna yip, head of the territory of port-caca, said。
