Coronavirus: Hong Kong tourism industry to receive HK$377 million relief package to tide it over through border closures

Hong Kong’s beleaguered tourism industry will receive HK$377 million (US$48 million) in aid to help operators cope with the collapse in demand during the Covid-19 pandemic.Travel agents, tour guides, coach drivers and operators of cross-border vehicles and ferries are set to benefit from the government’s latest round of financial aid, with the first payments expected from early September.Tourism had been hard hit by the anti-government protests in 2019 and the coronavirus crisis that followed,…

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