Do you want to travel for free to another continent? Hong Kong is giving away 500,000 airline tickets
Hong Kong will give away 500,000 airline tickets worth Hong Kong dollars 2 billion (US $ 254 million) as part of an initiative that will take place early next year to entice travelers to visit the city once the authorities will have lifted all restrictions on coronavirus arrivals.
Dane Cheng Ting-yat, executive director of the Tourism Board, said on Wednesday that his organization will handle the advertising campaign for the program, which is scheduled to launch in early 2023, while the Airport Authority will distribute tickets. .
" Once the government announces the removal of all Covid-19 restrictions for inbound travelers, we will launch advertising campaigns for free airline tickets ," he said.
The Airport Authority will define the agreements with the airlines ”. Free airline tickets aren't all meant for arriving tourists. Some of them will be given to departing travelers, while others will be distributed through travel agencies ”.
The Airport Authority has allocated HK $ 2 billion in 2020 to purchase approximately 500,000 tickets from airlines, including Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong Express and Hong Kong Airlines, to boost the city's tourism industry once the pandemic has settled. attenuated.
Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu is already under pressure from business groups and industry leaders to provide a roadmap outlining Hong Kong's return to normal, including the lifting of all entry restrictions for travelers entering.
In an effort to revive travel to Hong Kong, the government last week switched to a “0 + 3” entry scheme, removing the hotel quarantine requirement for arrivals in favor of a three-day surveillance period.
Under the new measures, travelers are required to undergo the Covid-19 test every day for a week and receive an amber health code that prevents them from frequenting places that require vaccine testing, such as nightclubs and restaurants.
In anticipation of the complete removal of all travel restrictions, Cheng said the first phase of the global advertising campaign will focus on Asia and other short-haul markets. But the council will postpone any large-scale promotion to mainland China until restrictions on entry to the rest of the country are relaxed, he added. Then, in the second phase, longer intercontinental flights will be encouraged. So in 2023, quietly consider Hong Kong for an exotic trip.
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