[Budget 2020] Members of the Tourism Legislative Council criticize measures to support frontline staff

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Written by: Yue Yueting

2020-02-26 18:19

The Financial Secretary, Chen Maobo, announced a new Budget today. Yao Sirong, a member of the Legislative Council of the tourism industry, welcomed the Hong Kong Government to allocate more than 700 million yuan to the HKTB to revitalize the tourism industry after the epidemic. Hotel, airline and frontline staff.

A number of countries have issued tourist warnings to Hong Kong, and the number of visitors to Hong Kong has greatly decreased. Yao Sirong suggested that the Hong Kong government should exempt the hotel from profits tax and government rent, as well as reduce airline parking fees and license fees.

He also pointed out that since the revision exercise, many tour guides, team leaders, drivers, and hotel employees have been suspended for several months. Coupled with the recent wave of closures, it is expected that more employees in the catering and retail industries will face unemployment. I hope the government will study Introduced the fifth round of relief measures to help front-line employees in the tourism, aviation and hotel front lines.

In addition, he hopes that the HKTB can increase the amount and scope of funding for stakeholders such as the tourism industry, so that more stakeholders can qualify for applications and provide comprehensive subsidies. For example: overseas and mainland exhibition subsidies, room and board, transportation and other subsidies. In the tourism industry recovery plan, he suggested that the Hong Kong Government provide the industry with tourism cooperation opportunities in the Greater Bay Area, and strengthen the promotion of markets outside Guangdong Province and overseas markets to increase the proportion of high value-added overnight tourists.

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