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| Yeoh credited Hong Kong for her helping her get to Hollywood |
Hot on the heels of Michelle Yeoh winning the Oscar for Best Actress in Everything Everywhere All at Once, the Hong Kong Tourism Board is trying to lure her to become an ambassador for the city.
During her acceptance speech, Yeoh thanked Hong Kong for helping her get a leg-up in her film career, and the HKTB hopes to capitalise on that, as well as other celebrities to become the city's ambassadors.
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| HKTB wants people to come back to the city |
The tourism board plans to spend an extra HK$800 million (US$102 million) on promoting meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE), along with its giveaway of 500,000 plane tickets, discounted train tickets, and dining coupons.
So far 1.46 million visitors arrived last month, the first time the monthly figure broke the 1 million mark since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020.
HKTB estimates there will be 25.8 million tourists coming to Hong Kong this year -- 46 percent of the 55.9 million visitors who arrived in 2019. A record 65.1 million visitors came in 2018.
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| Yeoh is a fan... of Mandarin Oriental |
Will Yeoh bite and sign on as an HKTB ambassador? She's already a Mandarin Oriental fan...
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