Golden week getting not spending
The mainland for 8 days after the golden week holiday,HongkongTravelingFind Industry Council statistics, during the golden week, although the mainland visitors reached a record 980000 passengers, an increase of 20%, but in contrast to it is, this year the mainland to Hong Kong consumption declined by 25% over the same period. So as the main business of theHongkong TourismIndustry and retail businesses lament this year golden week "Mong D spending is not".
Hongkong Travel Industry Council Director-General Dong Yaozhong said, mainland visitors past due to "more than money, price level" and love to come to Hong Kong to buy brand-name products, but in recent years, mainland tourists reflect, many brand-name luxury origin buy cheaper than in Hongkong to Hong Kong, to buy brand-name mainlanders are reduced, they prefer toItaly,France,The United States of AmericaDirect purchase of origin.
Hongkong Prince Jewellery & watch CEO Zhu Jitao said, in the past at every turn to spend hundreds of thousands of yuan to buy watches the mainland hawker has become less and less. Myjon president of the Hongkong Retail Management Association said, during the golden week of retail sales gained only single-digit growth, jewelry, watches and other high-priced goods sales continued to slow, the association has been Hongkong's retail sales down from the original 15% to 7% growth for 2004, the lowest level since opening since the.
��From shopping to the depth of experience
Hongkong free and open for more than 8 years, with the change of mentality, mainland tourists there, they went to port from shopping mallsShoppingGo to the cinema, restaurants or Islands and other leisure places, the depth of experience of real Hongkong customs.
According to local newspaper reports, many of the mainland to Hong Kong during the golden week, have chosen to Lantau Pui o Camp Camp, enjoy the full moon and people; some people to come to Hong Kong to deepness to swim, to Cheung Chau Island or even to Mui WoLamma IslandStay for a few days; and liveGuangdongYoung man, during the holiday and friends go to Hongkong to watch a movie or to tea restaurant chat, feel the other side of Hongkong culture.
����GuangzhouMiss Zeng said: "to Hong Kong as home to the side walk street shopping as convenient." In addition to the Hong Kong shopping, she would enjoy for the purpose, the idle time will to the cinema or restaurant a taste of local customs. Guangzhou Mr. Huang said, idle time will be about three five friends with Lamma Island, experience the blue sky and white clouds, clear water sand of the tiny island.
����BeijingA bit like a collection of Mr. Zheng said, Hongkong local is also similar to the Beijing Panjiayuan folk antique trading places. So, he came to Hongkong on the regular inCentralOn the west side of the Lok Road, Hollywood Road, cat street and other small blocks, because here is the focus of Hongkong folk antique dealer, maybe here can have unexpected harvest.
Many mainland people now prefer local characteristics of amusement, love the taste of old Hongkong style.
The Hong Kong change causes complex
The local industry analysts pointed out, because many mainland hawker has turned directly to Europe and the United States to buy brand-name goods, plus some rich by real estate market slip due to waste no longer, the mainland visitors from the previous main luxury, turned to the mass consumer goods.
Hongkong Travel Industry Council Chairman Hu Zhaoying said in recent years, attention to mainland tourists shopping habits are changing, from the purchase of luxury goods to buy daily necessities, shopping place also from shops concentrated area spread to Kowloon and new territories district. He said, the Internet information developed, many mainland people to go to Hong Kong Tourism data online, and Hongkong in the mainland tourism propaganda spread, makes free travel passenger from shopping tour to depth of local leisure travel.
Dong Yaozhong thinks, the change of the Hongkong retail industry "is not necessarily a bad thing", think this reflects the mainland people's consumption pattern has become more mature, consumption patterns no longer onefold, the industry that must keep goods diversification and quality of goods, in order to attract more mainland and other countries and regions of the visitors to Hong Kong consumption, there is to help make the retail industry continued to boom.
Hu Zhaoying said, the government should do a good job of environmental protection, build with local characteristics of tourism city, make the mainland passengers can feel the local culture. (source: people.com.cn)
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