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    Lets have more tourists why not

    Article in SCMP about 100 million tourists per year by 2023.
    Should we just develop Sheung Shui to cope?

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    completely insane indeed, we should have less and more high quality tourists instead

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    Quote Originally Posted by cookie09:
    completely insane indeed, we should have less and more high quality tourists instead
    I wonder how the screening would work:

    - do you have lots of money to spend?
    - do you spit onto bin?
    - can you shoot the contents of your nostrils onto a target that's 1sq ft?
    - where is the best place to let your child do a dump? (tick all that applies) : bin ashtray / mtr carriage / in the middle of a department store

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    Quote Originally Posted by Proplus:
    I wonder how the screening would work:

    - do you have lots of money to spend?
    - do you spit onto bin?
    - can you shoot the contents of your nostrils onto a target that's 1sq ft?
    - where is the best place to let your child do a dump? (tick all that applies) : bin ashtray / mtr carriage / in the middle of a department store

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    reminds me of ali g style ( uk comedian who later became borat, Bruno, etc) on immigration policies, letting all the fit birds in and declining the not so pretty, " fit, in; fit in: minger; declined"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Proplus:
    I wonder how the screening would work:

    - do you have lots of money to spend?
    - do you spit onto bin?
    - can you shoot the contents of your nostrils onto a target that's 1sq ft?
    - where is the best place to let your child do a dump? (tick all that applies) : bin ashtray / mtr carriage / in the middle of a department store

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    I would add, will all you do is drink and watch rugby, will you insult the locals and act like a yahoo, does the back of your neck get red in the sun.
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    Quote Originally Posted by threelittlepigs:
    I would add, will all you do is drink and watch rugby, will you insult the locals and act like a yahoo, does the back of your neck get red in the sun.
    Hmmm, sounds like a mainlander downunder.

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    Early a.m, I enjoyed a wonderful, civilised cacophony of a walk through North Point wet market , then found myself in an absolute nightmare of a mainlander tsunami in Harbour City, today.


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    assuming the debt binge in China ends sometime between now and 2023 and mainlanders tire of the same 3 types of shops in HK I can't see how there would be a doubling in tourists, more like a halving (heres hoping)


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    I went to Mongkok's CNY flower market last night. Last year I went to Victoria Park, and it was a nightmare. In comparison, the Mongkok one was much more relaxed and less crowded. There were a few Mainlanders there, but only the few. I really enjoyed it there last night.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Proplus:
    I went to Mongkok's CNY flower market last night. Last year I went to Victoria Park, and it was a nightmare. In comparison, the Mongkok one was much more relaxed and less crowded. There were a few Mainlanders there, but only the few. I really enjoyed it there last night.

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    My first CNY, I walked through Victoria Park market and I felt that I could hardly breathe. The memory reminds me of la Tomatina 2012. Gasping for air like a death inmate on his last breath. This year, well, this morning early, I was walking through thinking how peaceful it felt and looked before the crowds. Also watching some locals doing some exercise in unison in the park.

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