Theme parks, Hong Kong Disneyland and Ocean Park are to reopen shortly, it was announced Monday. The parks, both government-owned, have been closed since late January due to the spread of the coron…
Ocean Park, which recently revealed that it is close to bankruptcy and sought a government bailout, will open from Saturday , according to the territory’s Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, Edward Yau. An exact date for the reopening of Disneyland has still to be decided.
In its financial year to end of September 2019, Hong Kong Disneyland lost $13.5 million . It said that visitor numbers had increased by 5% in the nine months before political and social disruptions in the city began to dent tourist traffic. “We want to reboot the economy in the second half of this year through new initiatives in tourism, external trade and trade insurance services,” Yau said. “We are confident we will ride out the economic doldrums.”
There has been no general re-opening of Hong Kong’s borders, but separately on Monday it was announced that Hong Kong will relax its 14-day quarantine on arrival rule for executives of 480 of the largest companies listed in the city. That includes Tencent and Alibaba.
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