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Thursday, May 3, 1973
RECORD YEAR FOR TRAVELLERS
A record number of more than 8.28 million travellers entered or left
Hong Kong during the financial year ending March 1973, according to provisional
figures released today by the Director of Immigration.
This was more than 1.48 million over the corresponding figure in the
previous year and represented an increase of 21.8 per cent in land, air and
sea traffic.
to land.
The figures do not include transients or people refused permission
During the year, 4,152,472 people were recorded as having legally
arrived in Hong Kong, while 4,139,399 left.
The number of people travelling by land between Hong Kong and China
was up by 264,242 to 1,417,487.
Arrivals and departures by air numbered 2,877,774, an increase of
561,344 over 1971/72, while the number of people arriving or departing by sea
was 3,992,610 659,336 more than in the previous year.
Commenting on the increases, a spokesman for the Immigration Department
said they were part of a general worldwide trend which had been noted in recent
years.
affluence.
The fact that more people were travelling, he said, pointed to greater
He added that there had also been a considerable increase in package
tours coming to Hong Kong.
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