The number of tourists from the Chinese mainland visiting Hong Kong declined in June for a third consecutive month, according to a media report on Monday.
Hong Kong received about 2 million visitors from the mainland last month, Shanghai-based news portal jiemian.com reported, citing data from immigration authorities in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
That number was down 11 percent year-on-year, and it was the third decline in a row.
Visitor arrivals from the mainland began to fall in April, when a policy change limited visits by residents of Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong Province, which is just across the border from Hong Kong, according to jiemian.com.
Shenzhen has been the only city in the mainland whose residents were allowed to participate in a multiple visit program that began in 2009. That program has provided opportunities for so-called parallel-goods traders to buy products cheaply in Hong Kong and resell them at higher prices in the mainland.
Shenzhen authorities stopped issuing multiple-entry visas under that program in April.
