The Hong Kong Ocean Park

Jiang Ling and Zhang Fang, office ladies from Shanghai, visited Hong Kong with their children.

The two mothers enjoyed their shopping in the Pacific Place and Times Square, while the two 17 year-old youngsters spent their happy hours in the Ocean Park and Hong Kong Disneyland. The two parks did not receive ceiling numbers of visitors during the seven-day Golden Week.

Jiang and Zhang bought over HK$25,000 (US$1,282) of cosmetic products, fashions for themselves and sports shoes and jackets for their children.

Hong Kong shopping centers still had reasonable business growth though without any "surprising" achievements. The World Trade Center in Causeway Bay received 48 percent more passengers, and the each shop obtained at least 10 percent more of business volume.

The APM Shopping Center attracted 100,000 passengers during holding "night fair", with over HK$10 million (US$1.28 million) of business volume.

Lukfood Holdings (International) Limited's business volume of jewelry increased by about 10 percent during the Golden Week, as the Chinese mainland are greeting the wedding season.

However, Hong Kong travel agencies are somewhat disappointed with the Golden Week results. According to a Hong Kong association of travel agencies in charge of inbound tourist groups, the number of tourists groups to Hong Kong during the Golden Week decreased by at least 30 percent and it blamed the hiked prices of the hotel rooms for the decease.

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