Nobody wants to visit a polluted city.
Hong Kong needs to clean up its act, Cary Chiu of inbound operator PC Tours tells Helen Przygodzki. Yes, though I don't think it was purely a matter of the economic crisis. On the one hand, the Hong Kong travel industry was booming before 1997. When the handover took place we had a lot of overseas media coverage showing images of PLA troops coming into Hong Kong. That didn't help, it gave people a wrong impression.