By Winnie Hsu | Updated on Aug 16, 2026 at 06:11 AM
Hong Kong’s airport passenger traffic jumped 11.7% on year in the first half, as the Asian financial hub hosted a variety of events and attracted more visitors, according to the city’s Financial Secretary Paul Chan.
Hong Kong is consolidating and enhancing its status as an international aviation hub, he wrote in a blog on Sunday. In the first six months of this year, the Hong Kong International Airport handled over 200,000 aircraft movements, up 4.4% from a year earlier, while passenger traffic reached 32.8 million, Chan added.
The number of visitors to the city reached 31.2 million in the first seven months of 2026, up 12% on year, he wrote. The continuous influx has injected greater vitality into Hong Kong and brought more business opportunities, he added.
Chan wrote in his blog last week that Hong Kong expects more than 1.85 million visitors to attend over 100 events in the second half of the year, generating about HK$5.9 billion in spending and HK$3.3 billion in economic value.