‘Golden week’ begins with bang in Hong Kong, but restaurants’ gains ‘limited’

Hong Kong recorded a 13 per cent year-on-year increase in mainland Chinese visitors on the first day of the “golden week” Labour Day holiday, but a lawmaker for the restaurant trade noted that tourists’ shift towards more cautious spending resulted in only “limited” gains for the businesses. Labour Day is a statutory public holiday in Hong Kong and marked the start of the mainland’s five-day break