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Business booms for Hong Kong restaurants and shopping malls over Easter break

Business booms for Hong Kong restaurants and shopping malls over Easter break

Consumption vouchers help to fuel surge

Thousands of shoppers were seen in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, on Sunday. (Photo: South China Morning Post)

HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s catering and retail sectors have reported a double-digit surge in business during the Easter holidays, despite social-distancing curbs reining in some of their growth, according to industry professionals.

The boom in business was also fuelled by the government’s distribution of the first half of HK$10,000 (43,000 baht) in consumption vouchers earlier this month, with residents snapping up goods such as electronics and premium…

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