{"id":1221,"date":"2009-09-30T11:19:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T08:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2009-09-30T11:19:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T08:19:56","slug":"hong-kong-tourist-arrivals-fall-by-more-than-3-per-cent-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/hong-kong-tourist-arrivals-fall-by-more-than-3-per-cent-in-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong tourist arrivals fall by more than 3 per cent in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/hong-kong-tourist.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1222\" title=\"Hong Kong tourist arrivals fall by more than 3 per cent in 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/hong-kong-tourist-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"Hong Kong tourist arrivals fall by more than 3 per cent in 2009\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>Visitor arrivals in Hong Kong have fallen by more than 3 per cent so far this year as the global economic slump hits tourism hard, officials announced Wednesday<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The number of people visiting the former British colony in the first eight months of 2009 was down 3.4 per cent on the same period in 2008 when a record 30 million people came to Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the figures, the Hong Kong Tourism Board said there had actually been a 5.8-per-cent increase in the number of visitors for August compared to the same month in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>However, rather than signalling a turnaround, the board said this rise was caused by mainland Chinese people staying away from the city of 7 million during the Olympic Games in August 2008.<\/p>\n<p>China, source of more than 50 per cent of all visitors to Hong Kong, is the only market that has seen growth in overall visitor numbers for 2009.<\/p>\n<p>While Chinese arrivals were up 2.6 per cent in the first eight months of the year, all other long- and short-haul markets have registered negative growth, a tourism board spokesman said.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitor arrivals in Hong Kong have fallen by more than 3 per cent so far this year as the global economic slump hits tourism hard, officials announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}