HONG KONG COSMETICS SALES SUFFER THROUGH PROTESTS, BUT LONGER TERM SALES THREATS LOOM
November 1st, 2014
Yang Yuchen is annoyed that her package holiday to Hong Kong was cancelled this October. The stylish 25-year-old bank clerk had planned to spend the National Day week-long holiday (‘golden week’) dining, shopping and sight-seeing in Hong Kong. But the China Travel Service office in her hometown of Zhengzhou, a massive city in central China, cancelled its package tours to Hong Kong, meaning Yang could not get her Individual Visit Scheme permit which is required by most mainland Chinese tourists to enter the special administrative region.State-owned CTS was ...
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