Last week, the authorities announced that they must cancel short-lived flirting with the relaxation of some of these rules.
This decision drove many people’s travel plans towards the end of the summer vacation into chaos, triggered a shortage of hotel rooms, and caused increasing dissatisfaction in the business world.
“We believe that Hong Kong must be opened as soon as possible, otherwise this new isolation system may cause many in the international community to question whether they want to stay in Hong Kong indefinitely while moving on in other parts of the world. Frederik Gollob wrote in the letter.
“Such concerns of the international business community will undoubtedly pose a growing threat to Hong Kong’s status as an international business center.”
He added that although new variants of the virus are emerging, vaccination helps reduce the risk of extreme cases, and many countries have made plans to treat this crisis as an endemic disease.
