Council hails city tourism income boost

Council hails city tourism income boost

The industry now supports more than 5,400 jobs locally, confirming the sector’s pivotal role in the city’s growing economy. The success is reflected in increased visitor numbers, with total visitor days up nearly 2% and staying visitors increasing by over 3% compared to 2023. Hotel occupancy rates remained consistently high throughout the year, averaging 77%, and peaking at 85% in the summer months. Early figures for 2025 show this strong perfor…

During the May Day Golden Week just passed, the number of visitors to Hong Kong hit a post-epidemic high. The total number of visitors to Hong Kong was about 1.1 million, up 22% from the same period last year. Among them, there were about 920,000 visitors from the Mainland, an increase of about 20% year-on-year, and a total of more than 900 inbound tour groups from the Mainland came to Hong Kong. There were about 180,000 non-mainland tourists, a…