Good Prospects For Hong Kong Tourists

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32166, 9 December 1969, Page 19

Good Prospects For Hong Kong Tourists

Hong Kong travel agents believe that they can win a considerable amount of tourist business for New Zealand from the four million inhabitants of the island.

Mr C. Chen, a spokesman for nine visiting Hong Kong agents said in Christchurch yesterday that New Zealand had a class of scenery that would dazzle wealthy Chinese interested in travel. In recent years there had been a boom in travel emanating from the desire of the richer middle class to look overseas. Many went to the United States to see Chinese members of their families, while others went to Europe. But

travellers to Europe always came back complaining about the poor accommodation and the inadequacy of the food. “Here you have excellent accommodation and you put a good breakfast into a visitor at the start of the day,” Mr Chan said. “In Europe and England the visitor gets two pieces of toast and a cup of tea for breakfast. It is not enough. You give us as wide a variety for breakfast as the English give for lunch,” he said. The party has already visited the North Island, concentrating on Waitomo and the thermal areas. They will visit Queenstown and fly over Mount Cook before going home later this week. Mr Chen said that he expected to generate considerable group travel business as a result of his own visit to New Zealand. All his colleagues fell the same way.