Hong Kong’s tourism industry has taken its biggest beating in more than a decade as arrivals in August plummeted nearly 40 per cent year on year amid the ongoing political turmoil.
The drop in tourist footfall in August is the biggest year-on-year monthly decline for Hong Kong since 2003, when an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome swept the city – and followed an almost 31 per cent drop compared with July. Some 40 jurisdictions from all over the world have issued travel alerts for those heading to Hong Kong.
Number of tourists coming to Hong Kong drops as protests deter visitorsFood trucks which operate on government land will have their rent cut by half for the next six months, saving them an average of HK$18,000 in total.