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Chinese tourists offered 1.5-dollar-tours to Hong Kong
Jan 21, 2011, 2:41 GMT
Hong Kong - Tour operators are offering Chinese tourists cross-border return bus tickets to Hong Kong for just 10 yuan (1.5 US dollars) to entice shoppers to visit the city, a news report said Friday.
The cut-price tickets for the 350-kilometre round-trip from Guangzhou in southern China go on sale Monday in a joint promotion by a Hong Kong shopping centre and a Chinese tour company.
More than 2,000 tickets are on offer and expected to be snapped up within hours, a spokeswoman for Hong Kong's Hollywood Plaza shopping centre told the South China Morning Post newspaper.
Shoppers from China made up 8 to 10 per cent of customers at the shopping centre in 2010, spending an average of more than 800 US dollars each, the spokeswoman said.
The promotion underscores the growing importance of consumers from mainland China to Hong Kong. Cross-border shoppers are credited with reviving the city's financial fortunes in recent years.
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