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Trade websites of itehk.com & itehkmice.com provide daily market news on China’s outbound and Hong Kong
Last year China’s outbound reached 34 million. But where do they go and how they prefer to spend their money when abroad? With a population of 7 million, how big is Hong Kong’s outbound so the city has been named as among the world’s top 15 sources of market? For the first time Macau’s gross gaming revenue surpassed Las Vegas so what was its gross gaming revenue? And how about MICE, which stand for meeting, incentive, convention and exhibition, is a term more popular in Asia.
Last year international arrivals to Asia & the Pacific grew by 7.5% as against the worldwide average of 4.5%. Hong Kong residents made 5 to 6 million trips overseas trips, over 20 million overnight trips to mainland China and tenths of million day trips and the grand total exceeded 70 million. Where can one find such statistics and other market news about China and Hong Kong, in English?
A lot of such information can be found in two bilingual (English and Chinese) websites for the travel trade, namely, www.itehk.com and www.itehkmice.com which jointly publish a daily news summary column. Last month, the websites attracted a total of 13680 visits and over 0.33 million hits.
These websites also carry information about Asia’s leading international travel expo, ITE and the concurrent ITE MICE, held annually in Hong Kong and respectively from June 14 to 17 and June 14 to 16 in this year. In its 21st edition, ITE is among Asia抯 longest established international travel event and is also the only one of its kind in Hong Kong, while ITE MICE is also the only such event in the Greater Pearl River Delta which includes Hong Kong, Macau and the province of Guangdong in southern China.
ITE MICE & ITE are organized by TKS Exhibition Services Ltd., and supported by China National Tourism Administration (CNTA), Hong Kong Tourism Board, Travel Industry Council of Hong Kong and Macau Government Tourist Office. Official Airlines, Cathay and Dragonair, and Official Rail, KCRC sponsor the hosted buyer program. For further detail, please visit websites of www.itehk.com and www.itehkmice.com . For enquiry, please email to travel@tkshk.com or call +852 3155 0600.