Mainland China has reopened its borders, and citizens eager to travel are booking not just flight tickets, but also vaccination appointments.
But even if patients attempted booking an appointment as early as mid-December, the
at the Macau University of Science and Technology Hospital, the only location offering jabs to tourists, are as late as February.'Natural first destination': Hong Kong "I believe that the natural first destination of the Chinese vaccine tourism is Hong Kong. It will then spread to Asia and the U.S., maybe extend to Europe," Sam Radwan, president of management consultancy Enhance International, told CNBC.
"It's been long since I went to Hong Kong. I can take a vacation, as well as get vaccinated. Won't this be killing two birds with one stone? Without saying further, I have made my appointment and am getting ready," a man from Shaanxi provinceHong Kong Chief Executive John Lee said in a press briefing in late December that the city "has reached a relatively high vaccination rate," adding that it has a "sufficient amount of medicine to fight Covid.
Our recent study suggests Hong Kong and Thailand may benefit the most from the international tourism channel if China removes visa restrictions and outbound travel gradually normalizesExpect to see a wave of mainlanders traveling to Hong Kong to get their jabs, said Lam Wingho, a member of Hong Kong's Scientific Committee on Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, according to aLin said he received a steady stream of inquiries from citizens who wanted to know how relatives from mainland China could...
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