![]() ![]() The free tickets and other incentives to be offered to global and local visitors as part of a “market recovery campaign” are expected to help revive Hong Kong’s status as an international business and travel hub. The city will also host more than 250 events and festivals throughout 2023, from the Hong Kong Marathon to the Clockenflap music festival, Art Basel and Hong Kong Rugby Sevens. They will be distributed at tourist inquiry counters located at four border checkpoints from 5 pm on 2 February,” reports Time Out Hong Kong. “One million vouchers worth around $12 each will provide discounts on food, drinks, transport, hotels, retail and attractions. The city is also planning special offers and vouchers among other incentives in the effort to woo tourists back to the international financial hub, racing to catch up with other popular travel destinations in a fierce regional competition. Now that the rules have been relaxed further, optimists hope that the campaign will have a cascade effect and that the winners of the free tickets will travel with friends or family, multiplying the number of visitors. As the rest of the world started reopening early last year, Hong Kong, following mainland China’s tough zero-Covid policies, only began to relax some of its restrictions at the end of 2022, much later than competitors including Singapore, Japan and Taiwan.Īlthough mandatory quarantine on arrival has been dropped since last September and the border with mainland China opened in January, the recovery of the tourism sector has been very slow. ![]() ![]() “By 2022, that number had fallen to about 100,000,” CNN reports.įor skeptics, the relief measures are coming too late. “The city’s GDP last year fell 3.5% from 2021, according to the government’s provisional data,” Euronews writes.īefore the pandemic, Hong Kong saw 56 million visitors in a typical year - more than seven times its population. The very strict measures imposed on travelling during the pandemic have kept visitors away over the past three years, devastating the tourism sector and its economy. MORE FROM FORBES Americans' Favorite Places In Europe To Visit And Live By Cecilia Rodriguez Will it help? Then it will be the turn for people living in mainland China until May 1, when it will open to residents in the rest of the world.Ī further 80,000 free air tickets will be given to Hong Kong residents in the summer, with another 80,000 for those living in the Greater Bay Area. The tickets will be allocated in three waves: The first group will go to people across Southeast Asia, from March 1 to April 1. Starting on March 1, travelers wanting to visit Hong Kong can enter their names into a flight ticket lottery at the World of Winners international airport page. The tickets, costing the city some $255 million, will be distributed through the city’s three carriers: Cathay Pacific, HK Express and Hong Kong Airlines. All rights reserved How to get a free ticket Photo/Kanis Leung Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. Want to learn more? You can check out my blog posts about learning.Dancers perform at a kickoff event for Hong Kong's tourism campaign "Hello Hong Kong" in Hong Kong. There are still some tech gaps, but things are pretty cool. I’ve started using Freeplane to build my global subject map, which I’ll cover in a future blog post. I back up my data so that I’m less worried about losing my archive, and I also keep my paper notes by date. With Evernote and the Fujitsu ScanSnap, I can scan my sketches and file them along with my blog posts and other notes. Both visual thinking and technology have come a long way since 2003, when Lion Kimbro wrote this book. Maps are handy too, although I tend to use computers so that I can link and rearrange easily. I’ve been using some of the book’s ideas on colour and icons, indicating TODOs with green boxes and structure with blue ink. It also gives tips on splitting large subjects and mapping out the connections between topics. The book describes a system for taking quick notes and integrating them into subject-based sections in a larger binder, with some notes on managing your archive. You can click on it for a larger version and print it out if you want.įeel free to print, share, or modify this image! (Creative Commons Attribution License) I finally sat down and condensed the free 131-page e-book on How to Make a Complete map of Every Thought You Think(2003) into this one-page summary. I came across Lion Kimbro’s experiment with mapping out his thoughts years ago. I’m curious about how to take more effective notes, so I’ve been researching different systems. ![]()
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