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Record business travellers head to Hong Kong
Nov 14, 2011, 5:33 GMT
Hong Kong - More than 1 million business travellers visited Hong Kong for meetings, exhibitions and conferences in the first nine months of 2011, 15 per cent more than in the same period the year before, tourism officials said Monday.
The number, the highest-ever for the January-to-September period, was boosted by various conventions and exhibitions held in the city, the Hong Kong Tourism Board said.
Mainland China was the biggest source of business travellers visiting Hong Kong for meetings, incentive trips, conferences and exhibitions (MICE), accounting for more than 440,000 or 42.9 per cent of all 1,028,989 overnight MICE arrivals.
Tourism Board officials said the city had been a particularly attractive venue for MICE event organisers because of the appreciation of many major currencies against the Hong Kong dollar, which is pegged to the US dollar.
The board's chairman James Tien said many more large-scale conventions and exhibitions had already been lined up for next year.
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