{"id":8775,"date":"2021-01-15T04:52:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T04:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/hong-kong-economy\/article\/3117856\/visitors-barred-covid-19-hong-kong-logs-just-357"},"modified":"2021-01-15T04:52:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T04:52:32","slug":"with-visitors-barred-by-covid-19-hong-kong-logs-just-3-57-million-arrivals-in-2020-the-lowest-number-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/with-visitors-barred-by-covid-19-hong-kong-logs-just-3-57-million-arrivals-in-2020-the-lowest-number-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"With visitors barred by Covid-19, Hong Kong logs just 3.57 million arrivals in 2020, the lowest number on record"},"content":{"rendered":"Plagued by the collapse of travel amid the coronavirus pandemic, arrivals to Hong Kong plummeted nearly 94 per cent year on year in 2020 to just 3.57 million, the lowest number on record for the once-mighty tourism hub.The provisional numbers, published by the Hong Kong Tourism Board on Friday, marked a precipitous drop from the 55.9 million people welcomed in 2019, a year in which arrivals had already dropped due to the anti-government protests.The vast majority of 2020 arrivals came in the\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/hong-kong-economy\/article\/3117856\/visitors-barred-covid-19-hong-kong-logs-just-357\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plagued by the collapse of travel amid the coronavirus pandemic, arrivals to Hong Kong plummeted nearly 94 per cent year on year in 2020 to just 3.57 million, the lowest number on record for the once-mighty tourism hub.The provisional numbers, publishe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":876,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8873,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775\/revisions\/8873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}