Shandong Province Promotes Hong Kong As Tourist Destination

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 ◆ Shandong Province Promotes Hong Kong As Tourist Destination

The coastal province of Shandong, east China, plans to organize 12,000 residents to visit Hong Kong as tourists this year.

Shandong, an economically powerful province with a population of about 90 million, was an important source of tourists for Hong Kong.

The number of visitors from the Chinese mainland to Hong Kong totaled 1.39 million during the first quarter of this year, up 42 percent over the same period of last year, or about 38 percent of all the tourists to Hong Kong.

Sources with the Hong Kong Tourism Board say 4.45 million residents from the mainland toured Hong Kong last year, accounting for 32 percent of the 13.73 million tourists from around the world.