Hong Kong Business News

Secretary for Culture, Sports & Tourism Kevin Yeung today chaired an interdepartmental meeting to follow up on the preparation work for the arrival of visitors to Hong Kong during the Mainland's National Day Golden Week.

Mr Yeung noted that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government will maintain close liaison with various government departments, relevant organisations and the trade to properly manage visitor flow, to offer visitors with a good travel experience.

During the Mainland's National Day Golden Week, relevant government departments will strengthen manpower as well as co-ordination of transport and cross-boundary services at various control points, including strengthening crowd management and increasing transport frequency.

Police will make appropriate traffic arrangements according to the actual circumstances, including arranging public transport to use the designated dedicated lane at San Sham Road to travel to Lok Ma Chau/Huanggang Port.

In addition, the Inter-departmental Joint Command Centre set up by Customs, Police, the Immigration Department (ImmD) and other departments will be activated to monitor the situation at each land control point, as well as to maintain close liaison with Mainland counterparts and take contingency actions where necessary.

The Transport Department’s Emergency Transport Co-ordination Centre will operate 24 hours to monitor the traffic conditions of different districts, including various boundary control points and major stations, disseminate the latest traffic information through various channels and implement response measures where appropriate.

Major tourist attractions will put in place crowd control measures. Various district offices will closely monitor the flow of visitors within their corresponding districts and strengthen management of the relevant spots having regard to the actual circumstances.

The Travel Industry Authority will also deploy additional manpower to conduct inspections in districts where relatively more registered shops for inbound tour groups are located, and offer assistance to visitors and tourist guides to protect the rights of inbound tour group visitors.

In addition, Customs will step up inspections of shops serving visitors to combat unfair trade practices.

At present, the ImmD uploads the daily arrival figures of each control point to its website. Visitors may also check the estimated waiting time at each land boundary control point via the Immigration mobile application.

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