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Hong Kong tourism sinking from SARS (Five Star hotel recorded 1.9 percent occupancy last week)
Mercury News ^
| Sun, Apr. 27, 2003
| Jennifer Welker
Posted on 04/27/2003 4:28:26 AM PDT by Chipata
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:31:01 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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HONG KONG -In one month, SARS, or more accurately, the fear of SARS has brought Hong Kong's tourism industry to its knees.
After the World Health Organization slapped a travel advisory on Hong Kong and Southern China last month, average hotel occupancies that were once 79 percent citywide in early March, plummeted to 50 percent by the end of the month and fell further to 15 percent during the first week of April, according to the Hong Kong Hotels Association.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hongkong; sars; tourism; weiji
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posted on
04/27/2003 4:28:26 AM PDT
by
Chipata
Comment #2 Removed by Moderator
To: seamole
Yeah, bad timing with that ad campaign. Very sad, though. Haven't been since just before the ChiComs took over, but what a great place it was (maybe will be again?) An awesome setting and full of capitalistic energy.
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posted on
04/27/2003 5:47:16 AM PDT
by
speedy
To: speedy
'sbout time for a change.
To: Chipata
China & the far east never interested me as a travel destination, now it never will.
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posted on
04/27/2003 11:31:31 AM PDT
by
Ditter
To: seamole
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posted on
04/27/2003 11:36:10 AM PDT
by
cmsgop
( Arby's says no more Horsey Sauce for Scott Ritter !!!!)
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