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Letters | If you were a tourist, would you choose Hong Kong or Singapore?

  • Readers compare Hong Kong and Singapore as tourist destinations, and suggest what Hong Kong and Macau can do to bring back the crowds

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As Singapore reaps the benefits of its open borders, Hong Kong’s tourism industry continues to suffer, and the partial relaxation of entry requirements is unlikely to help.
At the end of September, Hong Kong scrapped the need for airport arrivals to go through hotel quarantine, allowing them to monitor their health at home instead.

During this surveillance period, arrivals are allowed to go out but are prohibited from visiting premises that require vaccine pass checks, such as restaurants, gyms, nightclubs, swimming pools, beauty parlours and salons. They have to download the Leave Home Safe app, which will show an amber code for three days.

By contrast, Singapore managed to relax its measures earlier this year, welcoming fully vaccinated travellers from around the world without requiring them to undergo pre-departure testing or quarantine. As of late August, there have been no restrictions on the number of people allowed to gather, unlike in Hong Kong, which has a four-person gathering ban.

If you were a tourist, would you choose Hong Kong or Singapore?

Baggio Chan Pak-hin, Tuen Mun

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