Opinion | Hong Kong for 1930s tourists: shopping, sedan chair rides, a side trip to southern China recommended in guidebook
What did visitors to Hong Kong experience in the mid-1930s? International leisure travel, then, was only for the affluent; almost anyone else who ventured beyond their home countries did so for work opportunities; tourist activities encountered en route were just a welcome bonus. After the free-spending, worldwide economic boom that characterised the Roaring Twenties abruptly … Read more
