Hong Kong logged 6.27 million inbound and outbound passenger trips during the five-day Easter and Qingming holiday breaks from Friday to Tuesday.

The five-day stretch also overlapped with the Chinese mainland's three-day Qingming holidays from Saturday to Monday.

A total of 335,000 trips to Hong Kong were made by mainland tourists during the three-day Qingming break, giving a boost to the city’s hotel industry. For three consecutive days, the Hong Kong West Kowloon Railway Station of high-speed rail link and the Lok Ma Chau Spur Line control points were their top choices of entry.

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Over the five-day period, more than 2.37 million trips were made by Hong Kong residents departing the city, with about 80 percent -- more than 1.8 million -- traveling to the mainland via land or sea checkpoints.

The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge’s boundary inspection station under the Zhuhai immigration authority reported 29,800 vehicle crossings on Monday -- the highest single-day total since the bridge opened in 2018.

Small-size passenger cars accounted for 28,400 of those crossings. Of these, 22,800 were vehicles bearing Hong Kong or Macao single license plates — with Hong Kong single-plate vehicles alone reaching 17,900, all setting new daily records.

A cross-boundary official said the traffic is now dominated by Hong Kong and Macao residents’ self-drive northbound trips.

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