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WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1990
COMMENTING THAT NOTHING SPOKE LOUDER
THAN FACTS, SIR DAVID EVENTS, OF WHICH JUST
SAID: "LAST YEAR, HONG KONG HOSTED OVER 500 OVER 400 WERE CONFERENCES AND THE REMAINDER EXHIBITIONS.
"BETWEEN THEM THEY ATTRACTED 108,000 VISITORS FROM ABROAD
NEARLY 50 PER CENT UP ON THE FIGURE FOR 1987.
"THE CONFERENCE FACILITIES ARE ALREADY HEAVILY BOOKED FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS AND PRESENT FORECASTS ARE FOR OVER 600 EVENTS IN 1993 ATTRACTING SOME 190,000 VISITORS."
SIR DAVID SAID THAT QUITE APART FROM THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF SUCH EVENTS, THERE WAS A BENEFIT TO BE GAINED BY EXPOSING MORE PEOPLE FROM ABROAD TO MODERN COSMOPOLITAN HONG KONG.
BOTH THE HONG KONG CONVENTION AND EXHIBITION CENTRE AND THE HONG KONG TOURIST ASSOCIATION DESERVED SPECIAL PRAISE FOR THE WORK THEY WERE DOING IN ATTRACTING THESE CONFERENCE VISITORS TO HONG KONG.
THE CHIEF SECRETARY ALSO SAID SUBSTANTIAL EFFORTS то BOOST LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFIDENCE IN HONG KONG WERE BEING TAKEN BY BOTH GOVERNMENT AND NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS.
AND IN A LARGE NUMBER OF OTHER AREAS, EFFORTS WERE TAKEN EITHER JOINTLY OR INDEPENDENTLY BY GOVERNMENT AND NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS BOTH IN HONG KONG AND THROUGH THEIR RESPECTIVE OVERSEAS OFFICES. THESE ACTIVITIES INCLUDED:
* HIGH-LEVEL VISITS, SOMETIMES LED BY THE GOVERNOR, TO TARGET COUNTRIES. WHEREVER POSSIBLE, THESE VISITS WERE LINKED ΤΟ BUSINESS PROMOTIONS.
TRADE, INVESTMENT AND TOURISM PROMOTION MISSIONS AND CAMPAIGNS, UNDERTAKEN BY THE HONG KONG TRADE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, THE INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT, THE HONG KONG TOURIST ASSOCIATION AND THE VARIOUS CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.
SPONSORED VISITS TO HONG KONG BY INFLUENTIAL PERSONS FROM TARGET COUNTRIES.
* SPEAKERS SENT FROM HONG KONG ΤΟ ADDRESS INFLUENTIAL
AUDIENCES OVERSEAS.
PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, AND THE HOSTING OF SUCH CONFERENCES IN HONG KONG,
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