{"id":92539,"date":"2026-10-13T10:14:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=92539"},"modified":"2026-10-13T10:14:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:14:04","slug":"opinion-apec-a-chance-for-hong-kong-to-earn-its-place-in-chinas-tourism-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=92539","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Apec a chance for Hong Kong to earn its place in China\u2019s tourism boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/12\/8c158ae0-424a-4df9-8640-a8a96cb2ff43_217ddca2.jpg?itok=f2U6kXhG&amp;v=1791800656\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"GenericArticle-AuthorShortBio\">\n<p>Ken Chu (LLD) is the chairman and CEO of Mission Hills Group, with businesses in hospitality, leisure, entertainment, sports, wellness and education in China.<!-- --> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"GenericArticle-Content\">\n<section class=\"er6t7fe39 css-19sk4h4 e1pqt1t0\" data-qa=\"ContentBody-ContentBodyContainer\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Over the coming weeks, Hong Kong and Shenzhen will host two major gatherings of Asia-Pacific decision-makers. Hong Kong\u2019s first Apec Finance Ministers\u2019 Meeting takes place on October 20-21, with around 500 visitors expected, while Shenzhen hosts the Apec Economic Leaders\u2019 Week next month.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">These <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation<\/span> forum meetings will bring international visitors to two neighbouring cities at the centre of China\u2019s Apec year. For Hong Kong\u2019s tourism industry, they offer a timely opportunity to turn that attention into longer stays in the city and encourage visitors to explore more of China.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">There is a question we need to answer first. As overseas travellers find it easier to visit mainland cities directly, what would persuade them to include Hong Kong in that journey?<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"er6t7fe5 css-1brgu1k e1pqt1t0\" data-qa=\"ContentBody-ContentBodyContainer\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/hong-kong-opinion\/article\/3370399\/apec-chance-hong-kong-earn-its-place-chinas-tourism-boom?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Chu (LLD) is the chairman and CEO of Mission Hills Group, with businesses in hospitality, leisure, entertainment, sports, wellness and education in China. Over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[7590,6233,2024,6292,4931,3569,5231,11252,65,5058],"class_list":["post-92539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-apec","tag-boom","tag-chance","tag-chinas","tag-earn","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-opinion","tag-place","tag-tourism","wpcat-4840-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}