Non-Shenzhen residents visit Hong Kong as a new holiday

Xinhua Beijing, December 23, according to Hong Kong, "Wen Wei Po," reported the financial tsunami at the end of last year, even if Christmas is the traditional consumption season, the city is weak, the consumer climate this year, coupled with non-Shenzhen residents of personal travel and open, to Hong Kong to bring huge consumption "new strength"　　Jewellery shops and restaurants are expected to do business in Christmas.　　A jewellery store said there had been a surge of mainland guest consumption last week, the surge in the price of gold has not prevented sales, the factory will have to work overtime to catch goods, the tourism industry expects this Christmas to be led by the non-deep visitors, the cosmetics and electrical shop is the most prosperous, because the mainland Christmas is not a statutory holiday, in Saturday and Sunday, the mainland will be the peak Chow Tai Fook Jewellery and Gold Bank area manager Reixiang said that last week, the number of visitors to the mainland has increased significantly, including many of the first non-deep individual tourists, the temporary assessment of the mainland passenger volume than last year 10%, although the gold price continued to rise, but did not hinder the mainland customers to buy gold ornaments for To cope with the demand, factories also need to work overtime to improve production capacity.　　He also pointed out that the consumer sentiment was particularly enthusiastic this year, with a 40% per cent increase in consumer spending in the mainland, which was expected to rise by 30% over a year earlier, with local consumption. Mainland visitors to Hong Kong for Christmas, tea restaurants are also stained with grace.　　Hua, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Li Yuankang Group, agreed that the mainland's open and private private tour would help to drive the business of its tea restaurant, with a strong domestic consumer support and a stronger local consumption atmosphere, which could increase the Christmas business volume by more than 10%.　　Hu Chaoying, chairman of the Hong Kong Association of Travel Agents, said that private visitors to Hong Kong during the Christmas period brought a huge source of tourists, because they are the first time to visit the territory, so the per capita consumption of the amount of 5000 yuan, more often than the residents of Shenzhen registered resident, is expected to be the most of　　Li, Director general of the Federation of Hotel owners, also said that the number of hotel rooms increased by 8% this year, but the overall hotel occupancy rate remained at 85至86%, with the largest bookings for weekends and Sunday, and prices were similar to those in previous years. Shopping malls are also eager to rob guests, round to attract non-deep households in the mainland to spend the Christmas period, the immediate mainland visitors to show the non-deep households to Hong Kong certificate can be 50 Yuan shopping coupons, shopping malls believe that concessions can be driven by double-digit double-digit increase in mainland visitors. APM sent shuttle buses to attract mainland visitors.　　Fung, general manager of the new government rent department, said that a shuttle bus service would be arranged during the Christmas period to enhance publicity on private personal travel measures. Non-deep household personal travel endorsement after the opening, not deep household fixed-point group was not affected, Cho Yifan, deputy general manager of the Hong Kong CTS, said that the relevant authorities had set a threshold, and many of the non-deep families who were not eligible for personal travel thought that Hong Kong would feel the Christmas atmosphere and would still be able to come to Hong Kong, and he revealed that recent enquiries were very enthusiastic, It was only in Saturday and Sunday that the regiment peaked. He also pointed out that a total of 741 designated groups had been organised to come to Hong Kong during the past year.