A major challenge is that underprepared destinations will easily find themselves being swamped, as was the case at the Hong Kong end of the bridge in its first weekends of operation; further afield, some African-safari destinations were unprepared for an influx of high-end Chinese travelers. ...
Senior officials within his ministry said the directive was meant to ensure that the con- cessions fall in the hands of people who have not been eco- nomically empowered before. Initially PWMA wanted to market the concessions through public auction hoping in order to better the 2003 result of...