The growth in mainland visitors to Hong Kong during the National Day holiday halved, compared with a double-digit surge in the same period in 2013, official figures showed on Wednesday.

More than one million trips were made to Hong Kong during the week-long holiday, up 6.8 percent year on year, according to China National Tourism Administration.

The increase was much lower than a 14.5-percent growth in 2013.

In contrast, travels to Macao remained exuberant. The special administrative region received some 846,000 trips, jumping by 17.1 percent from the same period last year. Endi

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