Hong Kong tops list of New Year favorites

Visits from the Chinese mainland to Hong Kong grew slightly over the New Year holiday, according to travel agencies.

Tuniu, one of the leading online outbound travel service providers, based in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, said on Sunday that Hong Kong ranked first among overseas tourist destinations, thanks to the efforts made by the region's tourism industry coupled with preferential prices for hotels and airlines.

Lvmama, another online travel service provider, based in Shanghai, saw the same trend. Data provided by Lvmama showed that the visits paid by mainland travelers to Hong Kong and Macao as a package jumped tenfold compared with the same period last year.