Articles of category "Hong Kong Hotel Association"

For many years Hong Kong tourism was one of the most flourishing and significant industries in the city. Hong Kong tourism services were also some of the most expensive in the world due to a very high demand and a low supply: in 1985, there were eighteen thousand one hundred and eighty hotel rooms in Hong Kong, but these could not satisfy the more and more growing tourist influx. With the Asian financial crisis, a global decline in long-distance travel due to 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States and 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Hong Kong tourism was expected to decline, though this happened for a short while...

Along with an interesting culture and traditions, an original cuisine and many historic sites, Hong Kong boasts for a highly developed and advanced hospitality industry. Having being always open to international contacts and cooperation, Hong Kong hosts numerous world-renowned hotel brands, including Marriott, Newton and Grand Hyatt. The others are famous companies, representing traditions of Asian hospitality, the major players of which are Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels and the Marco Polo Hotels.