Hong Kong visitor arrivals hit post-pandemic monthly high in August

Hong Kong has recorded its highest monthly number of visitors since the Covid-19 pandemic, provisional official figures show, with authorities attributing August’s total to a series of international conferences and mega-events.

The Hong Kong Tourism Board said on Tuesday that the city received 5.46 million visitors across the month, up 6 per cent from a year earlier and the highest monthly total since the pandemic.

Tourist numbers in the first eight months of the year also rose 11 per cent year...