The Silver Spirit became the first international cruise liner to enter Hong Kong harbour in three years, last week. As Hong Kong cruises into an expanding tourism market, the Silversea cruise arrived from Singapore for an overnight stay with 320 passengers from 20 countries onboard.
Luxurious German operated Mein Schiff 5 will dock in Hong Kong four times in early March. TUI Cruises expects to bring more than 5,000 visitors. Hong Kong’s tourism board has least 80 cruises booked in this year.
Adam Radwanski, Silversea’s Asia-Pacific managing director, thinks Hong Kong’s position in the Greater Bay Area makes it an ideal funnel for cruises to draw new guests. The Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area is China’s latest megalopolis in South China. It is envisioned as an integrated economic area aimed at taking a leading role globally by 2035, if it hasn’t gone…
