{"id":20807,"date":"2025-03-31T16:48:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T09:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=20807"},"modified":"2025-03-31T16:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T09:48:41","slug":"regional-trade-premium-fit-business-opportunities-aplenty-in-ite-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=20807","title":{"rendered":"Regional Trade, Premium FIT &amp; Business Opportunities Aplenty in ITE Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">HONG KONG<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">March 31, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; <span class=\"xn-location\">Asia&#8217;s<\/span> leading international travel fair and named\u00a0MEGA EVENT by government<b>, ITE Hong Kong 2025 comprises 39th ITE (Leisure) and 20th ITE MICE<\/b>, will be held from <b><span class=\"xn-chron\">June 12 to 15<\/span><\/b> in HKCEC with two days each for trade and public.<\/p>\n<p><b>Pre-pandemic ranked <span class=\"xn-location\">Asia&#8217;s<\/span> 3rd or 4th largest market, HK outbound fully recovered.<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\" class=\"prnbcc\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><b><i>2023 Outbound Spending<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen3\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><b><i>2023 Total Departures<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen3\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><b><i>2024 Total Departures<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen4\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">US$22.7 billion<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen5\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">72.2 million<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen5\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">104.7 million<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><i>111% of 2019<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p><b>Quality recovery, HK outbound<\/b>\u00a0in 2023 recovered more by spending (<b>84%<\/b>) than departure (<b>77%<\/b>)!<b>\u00a0But package tour recovery behind market:<\/b>\u00a0<sup>(a1)<\/sup>below 50% by <span class=\"xn-chron\">March 2024<\/span>; <sup>(a2)<\/sup>\u00a02024-Xmas-cum-New-Year season business similar to 2023; and <sup>(a3)<\/sup>of 2.1 million HK arrivals in 2023 to <span class=\"xn-location\">Japan<\/span> 7% by group tour. Thus,\u00a0<b>FIT including private group main contributor to recovery!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span><i>Oriental Daily\u00a0<\/i><i>(a1)\u00a0<\/i><i><a href=\"https:\/\/orientaldaily.on.cc\/content\/news\/odn-20240320-0320_00176_242\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">20-3-2024<\/span><\/a>;\u00a0<\/i><i>(a2)\u00a0<\/i><i><a href=\"https:\/\/hk.on.cc\/hk\/bkn\/cnt\/news\/20241212\/bkn-20241212030023183-1212_00822_001.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">12-12-2024<\/span><\/a>; <\/i><i>(a3)\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/statistics.jnto.go.jp\/en\/graph\/#graph--dashboard--basic--basic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>Japan Tourism Agency&#8217;s 2023 International Visitor Survey<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Used 5 halls same as in 2019; ITE2024 had 87% of its 515 exhibitors and 46% of 7023 trade visitors from outside <span class=\"xn-location\">Hong Kong<\/span>; 90% of 63027 public visitors prefer FIT; among 68 exhibiting countries and regions, 36% from non-<span class=\"xn-location\">Asia<\/span>!<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<b>Greater Bay Area (Bay),\u00a0<\/b>which include <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> top cities like <span class=\"xn-location\">Hong Kong<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Shenzhen<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Guangzhou<\/span> etc., contributed 74% of ITE&#8217;s trade visitors while another 10% from other parts of <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span>. With a combined GDP of\u00a0<b><span class=\"xn-money\">US$ 1.97 trillion<\/span> in 2023<\/b>, the Bay would have ranked around world&#8217;s 11<sup>th<\/sup> largest economy!\u00a0<b>Thus, ITE covers major source markets.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>ITE&#8217;s B2B program<\/b>\u00a0includes Buyer-Meet-Seller though the main format free-flow; speaking opportunity in seminars on selected topic (some with translation service), assisting exhibitor to hold own trade seminar, and free publicity pre-show and onsite.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Survey found public visitors travel\u00a0frequently<sup>(b1)<\/sup>,\u00a0mature with 85% between 25 and 59; educated (51% university and 23% post-secondary); and 60% spending more on outbound in 2024. With hundreds of exhibitors from abroad, ITE provides these travel enthusiasts great shopping of outbound holidays.<\/p>\n<p>(b1)\u00a0<b>Travel Frequency<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\" class=\"prnbcc\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><b><i>2024 Number of Outbound Holidays<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen3\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><b><i>Jan\u2013Jun<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen3\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><b><i>Jul-Dec<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen4\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><b>3 or more<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen5\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml10\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">44.1\u00a0%<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen5\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">39.5\u00a0%<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen4\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><b>1 \u2013 2<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen5\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml10\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">50.2\u00a0%<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen5\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">58.2\u00a0%<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p>Exhibitors welcome\u00a0<b>retailing to public visitors<\/b>\u00a0but shall check related laws! For example, non-HK resident exhibitors entering by tourist visa cannot conduct\u00a0<b>retailing activities<\/b>\u00a0in HK exhibitions. However, exhibitors can invite visitors use mobile to scan special offer QR-code, book and pay entirely online involving no cash which not against the law.<\/p>\n<p><b>ITE&#8217;s seminars are popular!<\/b>\u00a0Last year had 77 sessions drew nearly 7000 audiences and exhibitors welcome applying for free seminar session.\u00a0<b>TV host, <span class=\"xn-person\">Jarvis Chow<\/span><\/b>, whose seminar on <span class=\"xn-location\">Japan<\/span> drew 500+ audiences in ITE2024, will speak again in ITE2025. Plenty of fun in ITE which always filled with special designed stands, cultural performances, chance to try national costume from different destinations, mascot show, games, travel map and souvenirs etc.<\/p>\n<p>Organized by TKS Exhibition Services Ltd., ITE strongly supported by Ministry of Culture and Tourism, P.R.China with Hong Kong Tourism Board etc. as Supporters. Contact:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:travel@tkshk.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">travel@tkshk.com<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0WhatsApp:\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/wa.me\/85269361271\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">+852 69361271<\/a><\/u>\u00a0|\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itehk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.itehk.com<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">HONG KONG<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">March 31, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; <span class=\"xn-location\">Asia&#8217;s<\/span> leading international travel fair and named\u00a0MEGA EVENT by government<b>, ITE Hong Kong 2025 comprises 39th ITE (Leisure) and 20th ITE MICE<\/b>, will be held from <b><span class=\"xn-chron\">June 12 to 15<\/span><\/b> in HKCEC with two days each for trade and public.<\/p>\n<p><b>Pre-pandemic ranked <span class=\"xn-location\">Asia&#8217;s<\/span> 3rd or 4th largest market, HK outbound fully recovered.<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\" class=\"prnbcc\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><b><i>2023 Outbound Spending<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen3\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><b><i>2023 Total Departures<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen3\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><b><i>2024 Total Departures<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen4\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">US$22.7 billion<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen5\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">72.2 million<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen5\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">104.7 million<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><i>111% of 2019<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Quality recovery, HK outbound<\/b>\u00a0in 2023 recovered more by spending (<b>84%<\/b>) than departure (<b>77%<\/b>)!<b>\u00a0But package tour recovery behind market:<\/b>\u00a0<sup>(a1)<\/sup>below 50% by <span class=\"xn-chron\">March 2024<\/span>; <sup>(a2)<\/sup>\u00a02024-Xmas-cum-New-Year season business similar to 2023; and <sup>(a3)<\/sup>of 2.1 million HK arrivals in 2023 to <span class=\"xn-location\">Japan<\/span> 7% by group tour. Thus,\u00a0<b>FIT including private group main contributor to recovery!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span><i>Oriental Daily\u00a0<\/i><i>(a1)\u00a0<\/i><i><a href=\"https:\/\/orientaldaily.on.cc\/content\/news\/odn-20240320-0320_00176_242\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">20-3-2024<\/span><\/a>;\u00a0<\/i><i>(a2)\u00a0<\/i><i><a href=\"https:\/\/hk.on.cc\/hk\/bkn\/cnt\/news\/20241212\/bkn-20241212030023183-1212_00822_001.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">12-12-2024<\/span><\/a>; <\/i><i>(a3)\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/statistics.jnto.go.jp\/en\/graph\/#graph--dashboard--basic--basic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>Japan Tourism Agency&#8217;s 2023 International Visitor Survey<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Used 5 halls same as in 2019; ITE2024 had 87% of its 515 exhibitors and 46% of 7023 trade visitors from outside <span class=\"xn-location\">Hong Kong<\/span>; 90% of 63027 public visitors prefer FIT; among 68 exhibiting countries and regions, 36% from non-<span class=\"xn-location\">Asia<\/span>!<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<b>Greater Bay Area (Bay),\u00a0<\/b>which include <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> top cities like <span class=\"xn-location\">Hong Kong<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Shenzhen<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Guangzhou<\/span> etc., contributed 74% of ITE&#8217;s trade visitors while another 10% from other parts of <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span>. With a combined GDP of\u00a0<b><span class=\"xn-money\">US$ 1.97 trillion<\/span> in 2023<\/b>, the Bay would have ranked around world&#8217;s 11<sup>th<\/sup> largest economy!\u00a0<b>Thus, ITE covers major source markets.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>ITE&#8217;s B2B program<\/b>\u00a0includes Buyer-Meet-Seller though the main format free-flow; speaking opportunity in seminars on selected topic (some with translation service), assisting exhibitor to hold own trade seminar, and free publicity pre-show and onsite.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Survey found public visitors travel\u00a0frequently<sup>(b1)<\/sup>,\u00a0mature with 85% between 25 and 59; educated (51% university and 23% post-secondary); and 60% spending more on outbound in 2024. With hundreds of exhibitors from abroad, ITE provides these travel enthusiasts great shopping of outbound holidays.<\/p>\n<p>(b1)\u00a0<b>Travel Frequency<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\" class=\"prnbcc\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><b><i>2024 Number of Outbound Holidays<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen3\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><b><i>Jan\u2013Jun<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen3\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><b><i>Jul-Dec<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen4\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><b>3 or more<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen5\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml10\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">44.1\u00a0%<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen5\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">39.5\u00a0%<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen4\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><b>1 \u2013 2<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen5\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml10\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">50.2\u00a0%<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen5\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">58.2\u00a0%<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Exhibitors welcome\u00a0<b>retailing to public visitors<\/b>\u00a0but shall check related laws! For example, non-HK resident exhibitors entering by tourist visa cannot conduct\u00a0<b>retailing activities<\/b>\u00a0in HK exhibitions. However, exhibitors can invite visitors use mobile to scan special offer QR-code, book and pay entirely online involving no cash which not against the law.<\/p>\n<p><b>ITE&#8217;s seminars are popular!<\/b>\u00a0Last year had 77 sessions drew nearly 7000 audiences and exhibitors welcome applying for free seminar session.\u00a0<b>TV host, <span class=\"xn-person\">Jarvis Chow<\/span><\/b>, whose seminar on <span class=\"xn-location\">Japan<\/span> drew 500+ audiences in ITE2024, will speak again in ITE2025. Plenty of fun in ITE which always filled with special designed stands, cultural performances, chance to try national costume from different destinations, mascot show, games, travel map and souvenirs etc.<\/p>\n<p>Organized by TKS Exhibition Services Ltd., ITE strongly supported by Ministry of Culture and Tourism, P.R.China with Hong Kong Tourism Board etc. as Supporters. Contact:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:travel@tkshk.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">travel@tkshk.com<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0WhatsApp:\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/wa.me\/85269361271\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">+852 69361271<\/a><\/u>\u00a0|\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itehk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.itehk.com<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cision-pr-newswire","category-cision-pr-newswire-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}