Chinese New Year holiday visits to Hong Kong top 1.16 million
Xinhua, February 25, 2026 Adjust font size:
Tourists take a sightseeing bus in Hong Kong, south China, Feb. 20, 2026. Hong Kong had recorded over 1.16 million visitor arrivals from Feb. 15 to Feb. 20 as many people from the Chinese mainland traveled to the city during the Spring Festival holiday, local data showed on Saturday.
Among the total, visits from the mainland topped 980,000, data from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government showed. Previous estimates put total mainland tourist arrivals during the nine-day holiday at 1.43 million. (Xinhua/Zhu Wei)