1.3 million Hong Kong cross-border trips over festival weekend, but only 424,840 come in


Hong Kong residents made more than a million trips across the border over the Dragon Boat Festival holiday – more than three times the number of visitors who travelled in the opposite direction, Immigration Department figures have shown.

The grim news sparked a warning from the retail industry that major holidays were no longer guaranteed to drum up an increase in business for the city.

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