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Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Hong Kong is back. Now it must quickly cement its international status

Beijing should encourage foreign dignitaries to visit and also nurture the city as a base for more international, multilateral institutions.

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Hong Kong economy

Editorial | Hot-air balloon event flop offers costly lessons for Hong Kong

Hong Kong society

Opinion | Hong Kong’s co-hosting of National Games is about much more than sport

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Hong Kong tourism

Hong Kong to attract 170,000 visitors with Tourism Board’s 56 MICE events

Authorities eye development of meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions sector to lure ‘high-end’ tourists.

The Tourism Board says it has submitted bids to bring at least 56 events to the city, with 16 to make their debut locally this year. Photo: Eugene Lee
Banking & finance

Questex returns to Hong Kong for hospitality investment event

Questex picks Hong Kong for its yearly hospitality investment event, six years after closing its office in the city.

Hong Kong economy

Outside In | Still too soon for Hong Kong to declare its economy out of the woods

True, no one has ever bet against Hong Kong and won. But it would be a foolhardy administration that underestimates the challenges still faced.

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Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Why Hong Kong needs to embrace failure to succeed

A spirit of adventure – from small businesses to the government wealth fund – is crucial as Hong Kong faces rapid changes and challenges.

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AI company Smartmore’s founder and chairman Jia Jiaya chats with Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-Po and Hong Kong Investment Corporation (HKIC) CEO Clara Chan Ka-chai on June 12 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, where a strategic partnership deal was signed between Hong Kong’s wealth fund and the Hong Kong unicorn. Photo: Sun Yeung
Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Hong Kong can no longer sit back and expect tourists to come

For decades, tourism promotion has been opportunistic, riding on planned events year after year. But things have changed, and Hong Kong now needs a mindset shift and a consolidated plan to bring back visitors and boost economic growth.

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Hong Kong economy

Opinion | 3 ways Hong Kong can easily and quickly up its tourism game

Hong Kong has all the ingredients it needs, from its East-meets-West cultural history, free port tax-free status and vast natural attractions.

Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Private sector is key to success of Hong Kong’s economic transformation

The past will not deliver the future, and Hong Kong’s private sector must take on more direct responsibility, to identify and embrace today’s vastly different economic opportunities.

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Hong Kong economy

Opinion | How a truly ‘mega’ event in Hong Kong could silence Article 23 critics

Hong Kong has a plethora of events lined up this year, but can any really be classed as blockbusters? A real show-stopper would lure people from around the world and counter the Western media narrative that the city is no longer safe for foreigners to visit.

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Taylor Swift performs at Singapore’s National Stadium on March 2. The singer’s agreement with the Singapore government to only perform in the city state in exchange for a generous grant has rankled some regional governments and highlighted Hong Kong’s need to bolster its standing as a venue for international events. Photo: Getty Images
Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Hong Kong in no position to compete at any cost for prestige events

Superstar line-ups that improve the city’s image and boost tourism are very desirable but how happy would Hongkongers be if millions were poured into a single event, as Singapore has done with Swift’s tour and F1?

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Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Hong Kong can deliver on mega events but government must step up

The hiccups at some recent events, from the Wan Chai bazaar to the world rallycross race, are the result of a lack of coordination. A transformation of the government’s role is desperately needed.

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Hong Kong economy

Opinion | 5 reasons Hong Kong needs to build its own Sphere à la Las Vegas

For a start, with such a large, eye-catching and futuristic venue, Hong Kong would not have been overlooked by Taylor Swift, Coldplay and other mega acts.

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People arrive during the opening night of the Sphere on September 29 in Las Vegas. Photo: AP
Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Hong Kong’s colour is fading while Singapore and Shenzhen shine

The city needs rebranding and revitalising to shake off its image problem. After recent lacklustre tourism campaigns, and a failure to deliver bold ideas in the past, a deeper rethink is needed.

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Hong Kong economy

Opinion | How Hong Kong can give the world reasons to fall back in love with it

From entertainment and sports to art and culture, Hong Kong needs a strategy to reinvent itself as an international lifestyle centre alongside its role as a global financial centre.

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Hong Kong economy

Opinion | With masks off and shows on, Hong Kong is back on track

Busy events calendar in March alone will help restore confidence and signal to the world that Hong Kong has moved on from Covid-19.

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Hong Kong

Opinion | Hello Hong Kong? We need to remind tourists why we’re simply the best

A bolder, more imaginative approach is needed, better policy coordination and the dropping of all Covid-19 restrictions. Even after that, the tourism industry will need time to ramp back up to full service and return to a ‘World City’ mindset.

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The launch ceremony of the Hello Hong Kong campaign on February 2. Photo: Elson Li
Hong Kong

Opinion | 6 New Year’s resolutions for John Lee as we navigate stormy waters

From the economy, exiting Covid-19 and restoring public finances to healing the 2019 rifts, rebuilding tourism and easing rhetoric against foreign provocations, Hong Kong is counting on Lee for a better new year.

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Hong Kong

Opinion | When Jiang Zemin showed the world that Hong Kong meant business

Twenty one years ago, then-president Jiang agreed to attend a business forum here, giving InvestHK a great start – and showing the world that Hong Kong had China’s full backing.

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Hong Kong economy

The View | How is Hong Kong to be a trading centre if our trade fairs are dying?

Recent rugby and bankers’ events enjoyed exemptions and were a success but international trade fairs, and the wider events and tourism industry, continue to suffer. How does Hong Kong plan to keep its strict measures and still fulfil its economic role in China’s national plan?

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A security staff carries a placard to remind guests to wear a mask at all times at Mega Show at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai on November 15. The four-day international sourcing trade fair features items mainly produced in Asia for international buyers, including houseware, toys and baby products. Photo: Dickson Lee
Hong Kong reopens

Opinion | 7 lessons from Sevens rugby success as Hong Kong reopens for events

From reviewing Covid-19 rules to the needs of the events industry, Hong Kong has a chance to reposition itself as an events capital – with the catalyst of the success of the Hong Kong Sevens.

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Fans on the last day at The Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament at the Hong Kong Stadium in Causeway Bay on November 6. Photo: Yik Yeung-man
Hong Kong economy

Outside In | Hong Kong needs to bring back international sporting events – and its mojo

Sports is big business so it is vital for Hong Kong’s economy to quickly resume sporting events, and others, to show the world we still have the flair that makes events held here so special.

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Hong Kong economy

Inside Out | Don’t blame the world, Hong Kong’s economic wounds are self-inflicted

Hong Kong must not look to blame a challenging external environment now when its severe zero-Covid regime has strangled its vital travel, tourism and services industries, leaving damage that may be permanent.

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Hong Kong economy

Letters | Why Hong Kong’s events industry, frozen by Covid-19, deserves support

The government ought to support this economy-boosting sector like other places are doing, such as Scotland’s £10 million boost for events.

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Banners for the 2020 Hong Kong Book Fair at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai were already up on July 13 when the event was postponed due to a spike in locally transmitted coronavirus cases. Photo: Sam Tsang
Coronavirus pandemic

Letters | Hong Kong jewellers hit hard by Covid-19 need help to shine again

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A customer looks at jewellery at a shop in Tsim Sha Tsui in July 2018. Hong Kong’s jewellery manufacturers contributed 16.7 per cent to the city’s domestic exports in 2018. Photo: Winson Wong
Tourism

Hong Kong protests deal massive blow to trade exhibitions

Total attendance for the seven shows organised by the HKTDC in the last month and a half fell to 156,000 from 195,000 last year.

Qatar and Austria are rising star locations for business visitors from Asia

The long-haul destinations rank highly with events planners 

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