Growing distaste by Hong Kong residents at the behaviour of tourists from mainland China are turning into exchanges of abuse on the streets and social media networks. Hong Kong residents have called the mainlanders ?locusts? and have taken to singing a version of a popular Chinese song, ?Locust World? to mainlanders.
The eruption of abuse highlights the tensions and differences between Hong Kong and mainland China, as well as the popularity of luxury retail businesses to the Hong Kong economy.
ChinaSmack, a leading video and photographic blog that tries to highlight tensions in Chinese society, has picked up on the growing abuse that Hong Kong residents are openly targeting towards Chinese shoppers queuing to get into Hong Kong?s luxury boutiques. Heated comments from both sides are also been traded on Sina Weibo, China?s version of Twitter.
Hong Kong?s luxury retail outlets are the best performing outlets globally for most luxury brand businesses such as Gucci and Louis Vuitton (PA:LVMH) because of the high traffic from Chinese mainlanders. It is normal for there to be queues of retail tourists at anytime of day outside Hong Kong?s stores; sight that is causing resentment among locals.
Some people in Hong Kong view the large numbers of tourists showing an obsession with spending money on luxury brands as highly distasteful. As reported before in Asian Business Daily, the lower prices and greater availability of luxury brands in Hong Kong compared to China are the driving force behind why so many retail tourists flock to the region. Chinese authorities impose between 15 and 20% special tax on imported luxury items causing the higher prices.
Chinese tourists have hit back at the poor welcome Hong Kong residents are showing them.
One comment on Sina Weibo summed it the feeling by ?Everything they drink, eat, and use is produced and subsidized by the mainland. As our taxes are being used to give them better treatment and consumption to give them employment, they treat us as below them.?
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