Thursday, 15 January 2009

Hong Kong v.s. Macau - Ming Pao

Hong Kong is promoting the city's diversity of culinary experience.
Government is finally thinking about diversifying Hong Kong's way of promoting tourism. Great news : )
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Nothing ahead of its time or extremely hard for the think tanks, but it's a start.

But I found one thing typically Hong Kong in the passage.

去吸引旅客來港消費, in English that would translate as 'to attract tourists to consume and spend more in Hong Kong'. This seems to be the center piece of projects of Hong Kong government, to consume and consume at whatever expense that would have on the community.

The good news is that at least tourism board is not merely satisfied with the figures of tourism numbers as a whole. (Satisfaction with the growing number of spenders from China who generally come to Hong Kong to shop and then site see, while European and Japanese travelers come to Hong Kong generally to do site seeing and then shop.)


Macau on the other hand is heavily promoting their cultural heritage. We shall see how both city fare in the long term.
澳門回歸10年 重點宣傳世遺

One word of advice, when economy collapses, consuming culture collapses, but cultural heritage still stands. But hey, Hong Kong is lassiez faire driven free economy, we have nothing to be sacred off, we understand that economy experience economic cycles and so we are prepared for it.

......right?

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