Since the anti-revision storm began, many countries have issued tourist warnings or warnings to Hong Kong to advise citizens to avoid coming to Hong Kong, and the number of visitors to Hong Kong has greatly decreased
The AA announced yesterday that the passenger volume of the airport last month was approximately 5.03 million, a decrease of nearly 16% year-on-year. According to data from the Civil Aviation Department, the decline was the largest since June 2009, and fell for more than 12% for the fourth consecutive month. The airport’s overall aircraft take-off and landing volume also decreased by 8.3%, while cargo throughput decreased by 3.4%.
Falling more than 12% for four consecutive months
The AA yesterday announced the air traffic figures for the airport in November. Passenger traffic was only 5.206 million passengers, a decrease of nearly 16% compared to 5.99 million in the same month last year. In addition to the largest drop in the first eleven months of this year, it is the fourth consecutive month of decline of more than 12%. According to the figures of the Civil Aviation Department, this is also the largest drop since June 2009 . As for the volume of aircraft taking off and landing, which decreased by 8.3% year-on-year to more than 32,000 sorties, the volume of cargo also decreased by 3.4% to 450,000 metric tons.
Although passenger traffic recorded a significant decline, transit or transit passengers recorded a 6% increase compared to the same period last year, and the number of Hong Kong residents’ foreign visitors also increased by 5%. The AA explained that the decline in passenger traffic was dragged down by the weak performance of inbound tourism, with the most significant drop in passenger traffic to the Mainland and Southeast Asia.
Christmas is approaching, the AA said that the airport passenger terminal will be replaced with various Christmas arrangements, and a series of celebrations will be held to make passengers feel happy. From 21st of this month, there will be performances at multiple locations in the passenger terminal, including from Hong Kong Dance performances and unaccompanied singing at the Academy of Performing Arts.
Citizens visit the industry exhibition
In addition, the annual trade show started on Tuesday, and yesterday the trade show ushered in its first weekend. Even if there are sporadic conflicts in the big and small shopping malls, and the willingness of the citizens to go to the industry exhibition to “go for it” has not been diminished, people are still coming and going on the market. However, compared with last year, the number of visitors has indeed decreased.
There are many people pushing shopping carts on the market, and there are also large and small families coming to sweep the goods. The owner of a seafood store said that the business was originally expected to be 30% less than last year, but found that the business was not worse than last year, and many citizens quickly decided to spend as soon as they arrived. They believed that the citizens had not bought well in the past few months and accumulated A certain consumption power. Some citizens said that they visit the industry fair every year and have no special budget. They will buy it at a reasonable price, but he was worried that the cause of conflict in Causeway Bay yesterday, so he entered early.