440,000 mainland arrivals over Mid-Autumn weekend, hotels brace for National Day

Mainland Chinese visitors made about 440,000 trips to Hong Kong over the Mid-Autumn Festival weekend, with a tourism industry representative expecting hotel occupancy of more than 90 per cent in popular districts during the coming National Day “golden week”. Hong Kong recorded 439,532 arrivals by mainland visitors from last Friday to Sunday, according to Immigration Department figures released on Monday. The total accounted for about a quarter of the 1.73 million arrivals recorded during the...