Plagued by the collapse of travel amid the coronavirus pandemic, arrivals to Hong Kong plummeted nearly 94% year on year in 2020 to just 3.57 million, the lowest number on record for the once-mighty tourism hub.
The provisional numbers, published by the Hong Kong Tourism Board on Friday, marked a precipitous drop from the 55.9 million people welcomed in 2019, a year in which arrivals had already dropped due to the anti-government protests.
The vast majority of 2020 arrivals came in the very first month of the year, the board noted.
Hong Kong recorded its first coronavirus cases on Jan 23 last year, two mainland Chinese tourists who arrived in the city via the high-speed…
