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When Communist rioters swirled through the streets of Hong Kong in 1967, the business community trembled on the edge of chaos. The local stock market dropped to a modern low; bank deposits plunged; tourism dried up. Nearly 1,000 businessmen made inquiries about shifting to Taiwan or Singapore. But peace returned-and so did prosperity. No businesses actually moved out. Despite the monumental inconveniences caused by what is now euphemistically called "the disturbances," 1967 turned out to be Hong Kong's best export year until then, and 1968 was even better in every respect. Last week, as it celebrated...
Tunnel to the Island. With an economy more heavily dependent on exports than any other in the world, Hong Kong increased sales to foreign customers in 1968 by 26%, to $1.4 billion. Bank deposits climbed 20%. The stock market reached an alltime high. Tourism soared as 618,000 visitors spent $160 million and 200,000 U.S. servicemen on R & R left behind another $60 million...
...more major hotels are due by the early 1970s, when tourism is expected to total 1,000,000 visitors a year. The local government is arranging financing for a $17 million runway extension that will open Kai Tak Airport to jumbo jets; it is also planning a $500 million subway and a $350 million road improvement, including a tunnel to connect the mainland Kowloon peninsula with Hong Kong Island...
...instance, unifies mostly in the sense that more and more Europeans hum the same pop tunes. Newspapers still tend to mirror only their own narrow societies. Nor do Europe's armies of tourists represent the first wave of a new pan-Europeanism. "The obsession of the new mass tourism is not to see a new country but to find two commodities: the sun and the sea." In Sampson's opinion, even the automobile, Europe's latest symbol of liberation and status, provides a chrome-trimmed distraction from serious subjects, including the concept of unity...
...question now facing MEA is whether the airport raid will affect tourism and shake passenger confidence. That will not be answered until the Lebanese tourist season begins in April. For the first 19 days of 1969, however, MEA's passenger loads were almost 20% above the same period...