Covid: Hong Kong to lure tourists with 500,000 free air tickets
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"The airport authority will finalise the arrangement with airline companies. Once the government announces it will remove all Covid-19 restrictions for inbound travellers, we'll roll out the advertising campaigns for the free air tickets," Dane Cheng, executive director of the Hong Kong Tourism Board said.
The airline, which was founded by billionaire Richard Branson, halted flights to Hong Kong last December. Until recently Hong Kong had some of the world's toughest rules as it followed China's zero Covid policies.it would no longer require people arriving in the city to go into hotel quarantine, or show a negative Covid test before boarding flights to Hong Kong.
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