Hong Kong's tourism industry speeds up the construction of Shenzhen-HK high speed rail materials to absorb more than 20% mainland visitors

Xinhua Beijing, January 4, according to the Hong Kong "Wen Wei Po" reported that Wuhan opened, marking the mainland officially into the "high-speed rail era", but the Guangzhou-Shenzhen High-speed Railway (Hong Kong section) project is still a stalemate, the relevant funding applications adjourned to this Friday.　　The delay in the construction of the high-speed rail project has not only caused a sharp increase in building costs, but also worried the various industries which aspire to the high speed rail business. Hong Kong's tourism industry has warned that the project could delay Hong Kong or be marginalized.　　Once the high-speed rail is completed, for mainland visitors to provide more convenient and inexpensive means of transport to Hong Kong, travel agencies can also take the opportunity to develop a large-scale "Gaotie", materials for the temporary absence of direct flights to Hong Kong to the largest area of tourism potential, the estimated accounting for the total number of visitors in Hong Kong more than half of the mainland passenger volume　　On the basis of the current rate of passenger growth, mainland visitors will have to break 20 million and consume more than $110 billion, with an increase in consumption income of about 20 billion due to the increase in the number of passenger trains. Hu Chaoying, chairman of the Travel Industry Council, said that the railway would be able to carry a large number of customers and fares were cheaper than airfare, and that the completion of the railway would provide a cheaper alternative to mainland visitors to Hong Kong.　　He pointed out that because of the high cost of air tickets, many of the mainland's two or three-line cities, such as Hubei and Hunan, had few visitors to Hong Kong, and the future high-speed rail would reduce the costs and time of outbound travel and would enhance their desire for sightseeing and shopping in Hong Kong. If Hong Kong does not build high-speed rail, Hu Chaoying worries that Hong Kong's attractiveness will be undermined by the continued development of tourism in the mainland. "Although the transport network between Hong Kong and the mainland is already well developed, the traffic time for travellers is accounting for every minute, and the number of passengers on a single train will be as many as thousands of people, if it is necessary to take them to Hong Kong with the travel bus," he said. "Hu Chaoying pointed out that after the opening of the high-speed rail, travel agencies can use high speed rail, high-speed transport, arranging more large-scale tours, regardless of both inbound and outbound travel opportunities, at the same time, in the rapid economic development of the mainland, Hong Kong with perfect aviation network is the main channel for overseas business visitors to the mainland After the completion of the high-speed railway, Hong Kong can further become a transport hub in the region.　　The high-speed rail project is an urgent task, otherwise Hong Kong will only slowly be replaced and lose its competitiveness. Li, Director-General of the Hong Kong Hotel Owners Association, said that the majority of mainland visitors to Hong Kong are from the PRD and are now becoming saturated, and that after the construction of the high speed railway, Hong Kong will attract residents of the Yangtze River and the cities south of the Yellow River to visit Hong Kong in a fast and inexpensive　　For the long-term development of the tourism industry and the rapid development of tourism in Taiwan and Singapore in recent years, Li that the government should expeditiously implement the construction of high-speed rail links between the two places so as to avoid marginalization. Li also pointed out that 30% of the economic benefits brought by tourism to Hong Kong came from hotel accommodation, while the remaining 70% came from the retail and catering industries.