My Hong Kong | Thai tour group to Hong Kong deserves ‘Tourist of the Year’ medals after eating meal boxes for 3 days
- The case of a Thai tour group that spent three days of a four-day trip eating meal boxes in their rooms highlights the absurdity of ongoing Covid travel curbs
- The Hong Kong Tourism Board should appoint them as unofficial ambassadors and shower them with free air tickets and future hotel accommodation
A Hong Kong news item caught my eye this week about a Thai tour group on a four-day tour of the city.
For the first three days of their trip they ate meal boxes in their hotel rooms. On the final day, their health codes turned blue and they could finally eat out at restaurants. They squeezed in two iconic local meals – dim sum and hotpot – before leaving.
They expressed an eagerness to revisit Hong Kong, presumably for more food.
As a Hongkonger, I was thankful to see such diehard fans being so graceful and supportive of our local cuisine and economy, even when faced with the inconvenience of rigid Covid restrictions.
Food is an essential part of travel, but the group had not been allowed to dine out because Covid rules restrict incoming travellers from eating at restaurants for three days after arriving. Changes that give some leeway to tour groups who jump through the necessary hoops were only made last week, and the group’s travel operator had not taken advantage of them.
