The Hong Kong Tourism Office has invited 10 "super Hong Kong fans" to visit Hong Kong, including two internet celebrities with more than one million followers.
Internet celebrity "I Am An" said that he likes Hong Kong's bustling, trendy and laid-back elements, as well as the ubiquitous cafes, lively bars and hiking routes with beautiful scenery.
Another Internet celebrity "A Blue Whale" pointed out that Hong Kong's means of transportation such as trams and ferries are unique, which not only charge much but also give people a romantic feeling, praising Hong Kong for its inclusive culture and the first stop for mainland friends to understand the world.
First of all, these two "Internet celebrities" really don't know each other, but if you talk about Hong Kong tourism promotion, I think that the Internet celebrity Ah Qiu, who lost her bicycle in Hong Kong not long ago, is a very suitable candidate, it seems that the Hong Kong Tourism Board missed an opportunity.
Since the full customs clearance on 6 February this year, the number of mainland tourists visiting Hong Kong has soared, and it is of course imperative for the government to do a good job in tourism promotion and promotion, but the management of the tourism market cannot be neglected.
Recently, netizens have continuously exposed the experience of being slaughtered for tourism entering Hong Kong and being discriminated against in speaking Mandarin. These experiences include: unfriendly driver attitude and additional charges; The hotel looks like mainlanders have to overcharge deposits; When eating at the restaurant, the young clerk obviously speaks Mandarin, but deliberately speaks Cantonese when communicating with mainland tourists; When I asked the clerk to exchange change, I was given a face by the clerk.
And the most outrageous thing is that not long ago, a female tourist in Ningbo was cheated of 110,000 Hong Kong dollars. While shopping for health supplements at Universal Pharmacy on East Point Road in Causeway Bay, this tourist was persuaded by a clerk to buy a Chinese medicine. She only looked at the price on the medicine bottle to indicate that she had the intention to buy, and then heard that she didn't want it if she wanted 110,000 Hong Kong dollars, but the clerk said that it had been ground into powder, and she couldn't do it without it, and the end could be imagined.
Not only that, in the past few days, netizens have exploded a mainland woman traveling to Hong Kong, unlucky to meet a black-hearted taxi, and was charged more than 500 yuan at once.
Mainlanders may not know what a taxi fare of more than 500 means in Hong Kong, but you can understand if you look at the map and see how big Hong Kong is.
The starting fee for a Hong Kong taxi is 27 yuan, and this mainland tourist found that the odometer did not skip the meter, but when he finally got off the bus, he was charged 517 yuan, and even Hong Kong locals complained that the charge was too much!
There are still many of these tourist chaos, which are too far from the original Hong Kong. Think about when you went to Hong Kong in 2018, eating, living, playing, buying, Hong Kong people are very enthusiastic and rarely throw your face. Although the phenomenon of customer slaughter occasionally exists, the parties in these individual cases are not so arrogant, and you point out that the general big things are turned into small things, and few complain to the above.
Hong Kong is still that Hong Kong, but the people of Hong Kong have changed a lot. Since 2018, they have indeed experienced something, another 3 years of the epidemic, and a depression in all industries. In this case, it is understandable that some people have some complaints and grievances.
With the surge in the number of mainlanders visiting Hong Kong, occasionally some people will behave uncivilized, and those very few behaviors that lack perception are really not a reason to use mainland tourists as a punching bag.
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Finally, I would like to say that it is not the prosperity of the mainland that needs Hong Kong, but that Hong Kong's prosperity cannot be separated from the mainland, and it is an indisputable fact that mainland tourists can bring prosperity to Hong Kong. Only by facing this fact squarely can Hong Kong truly integrate into the Greater Bay Area and the overall development of the country in the future, and Hong Kong will have a bright future.