Hong Kong cable car attraction at 95% of pre-pandemic heights as Southeast Asian tourists return, but long-haul traffic remains slow
- But Ngong Ping 360 managing director James Tung says European and North American visitors still to get back to numbers seen before coronavirus hit
- He says he is confident number of long-haul tourists will climb as flight capacity continues to grow
But James Tung Pui-chen, Ngong Ping 360’s new managing director, said European and North American visitors had still to return to the levels logged before the coronavirus hit.
“Customers from long-distance countries in Europe and the United States are still lagging behind,” Tung said in his first interview since he took over the role in April.
“This is mainly due to the slow recovery of [long-haul] flight capacity to Hong Kong, which has made recovery in these markets relatively slow.”
Tung did not reveal the total number of long-haul visitors to the attraction from January to mid-May, but said they amounted to about 15 per cent of traffic over the period.
Long-haul visitors made up 22 per cent of customers over the same time frame in pre-pandemic 2018.
