{"id":17110,"date":"2010-07-30T05:30:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T21:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/en\/?p=17110"},"modified":"2010-07-30T05:30:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T21:30:10","slug":"hong-kong-reports-record-tourist-numbers-in-first-half-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2010\/07\/30\/17110\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Reports Record Tourist Numbers In First Half 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hong Kong Tourism Board has reported that the number of tourist arrivals in the SAR hit a record 16.86 million in the first half of 2010 &#8212; up 23.1% from the previous year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The report adds that June, a total of 2.62 million tourists visited Hong Kong, up 43.5% year on year.<\/p>\n<p>The tourism board also points out that the Chinese mainland has become a major source of tourists. In the first six months, 10.48 million mainland tourists visited Hong Kong &#8212; 26.9% more than in the same period of last year.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the board said the number of tourist arrivals would increase by 20% to 25% in the summer period, and the number may keep growing in the second half of 2010 if Europe recovers from its debt crisis and the global economic environment remains in a good shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hong Kong Tourism Board has reported that the number of tourist arrivals in the SAR hit a record 16.86 million in the first half of 2010 &#8212; up 23.1% from the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[12762,15113,12814,12782],"class_list":["post-17110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-hong-kong","tag-mainland-tourists","tag-statistics","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}