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Evidently tourism authorities are worried that budget tour operators are ruining Hong Kong’s reputation as a desirable destination.
The prices of many tours, especially from the mainland, are less than the actual cost to the tour operator. So how does the tour operator make any money: by insuring that visitors spend a good part of their [...]
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I recently had the opportunity to show a couple of first time visitors around Hong Kong. They were connecting to a cruise and so had only a day and a half. Additionally, the weather was hot and extremely muggy, a condition they were not used to. What to do? What to [...]
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As Randy Quaid said in the movie Independence Day as he crashed his plane into the alien space ship, “I’m baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!”
You can expect updates pretty much on a daily basis until I hit the road again in July.
I don’t know exactly when it was but at some point, I started to think of [...]
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One day until the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens!
Yesterday, I listed a number of late night nosheries. I realized that I had missed a few. Some of the following are only open late (defined as 2:00 AM or later) on the weekends. Others did not meet my criteria as unspecific as those criteria [...]
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12 days until the Hong Kong Sevens!
The news on the “Chicken Wars” front is that there is no news - not in the newspapers, not on local TV news and not as a topic of general conversation. For something that was taking up a great deal of space and air-time just a week ago, [...]
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Two weeks until the Hong Kong Sevens!
Hong Kong’s leading long-distance runner, Mark Williams, announced today that he’s relocating to New Zealand. His reason: he’s sick of breathing Hong Kong’s “foul air” and he doesn’t want to raise his children in the midst of all the air pollution. Interestingly, he lives in Discovery Bay, [...]
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This entry is continued from yesterday’s entry in which I quoted some statistics, talked about where the prostitutes in Hong Kong come from and what some of the issues are. Today I discuss why prostitution exists, who if anyone is to blame and raise the idea that there’s little that can be done to [...]
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Recently there has been an increase in interest in the situations of sex workers in Hong Kong. Hong Kong has recently been accused of being a transit point for prostitute trafficking, the WTO protesters contained a group of sex workers, one of the two NGOs reaching out to sex workers is losing its funding, [...]
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Complaints are up about taxi and mini-bus drivers, especially as a percentage, the unregulated red mini-busses. I seldom ride the red mini-busses but I do use taxis quite often (I live up a fairly steep hill) and ride the green, regulated mini-busses from time to time
Naturally, the representatives of the drivers said the complaints [...]
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The International Wellbeing Group announced yesterday that Hong Kong people rate themselves as unhappier than the international average. Using a 10 point scale, with 7.5 as the average, Hong Kong came in at 6.5. Does this mean that the people of Hong Kong are really unhappier than Nigerians for instance who score at [...]
