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Hong Kong sees record 100,000 visitors a day over Chinese New Year
Jan 31, 2012, 3:41 GMT
Hong Kong - More than 100,000 people a day visited Hong Kong over the Chinese New Year holiday, 6.6 per cent more than during the same period in 2011, the city's Tourism Board said Tuesday.
However, the record total of 707,000 visitors from January 22 to Saturday was below expectations of a 10-per-cent rise partly because of a cold snap that made for the chilliest Chinese New Year in 16 years.
Nearly eight out of every 10 visitors were from mainland China, said the board, which recently announced a record 42 million visitor arrivals for 2011.
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