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Lower-than-expected sales figures are certainly disappointing for Hong Kong retailers and tourism officials, but we'd say this reflects not a drop in luxury demand but rather highlights the global spread of the Chinese luxury consumer. Read More

18 months after the launch of a pilot duty-free program aimed at boosting high-end shopping among mainland Chinese tourists, this month customs authorities are set to raise the duty-free allowance for domestic and international visitors to Hainan island. Read More

Hong Kong retailers may be hurting as the influx of mainland Chinese tourist-shoppers seen in recent years slows, but destinations like South Korea are poised to gain as these big-spending travelers look further afield. Read More

Currently with more than 100 points of sale in China and a strong duty-free presence, Folli Follie hopes to attract more Chinese shoppers via a localized, heritage-minded ad campaign heavy on Greek imagery. Read More

The problem with depending too much on Chinese tourists to pick up the slack for other regular visitor nationalities is that they simply haven't flocked to destinations like Greece in significant enough numbers. Read More

From waiting in hours-long lines to stock up on luxury goods to causing controversies at the Dolce & Gabbana flagship in Tsim Sha Tsui to making a rental-space bidding war break out between Abercrombie & Fitch and Shanghai Tang, the effects of more visits (and more spending) by mainland Chinese in Hong Kong are being felt throughout the city's retail landscape. Read More

For the last several months, Jing Daily has kept a close eye on the diminishing fortunes seen for lots of formerly dominant Château Lafite at auction and rising interest in the top-tier Burgundy Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC) among China's wine-drinking (and collecting) elite. Read More

Despite the difficulties faced by hoteliers in mainland China, how has China's hotel surge manifested on the southern province of Hainan? Read More

Following a three-month trial run, this weekend Kunming, capital city of southwest China's Yunnan province, launched its first duty-free store. Read More

Police in the city of Shenzhen had some excitement this week, nabbing a young couple from Shanxi province who were trying to smuggle over US$600,000 worth of luxury goods over the border from nearby Hong Kong. Read More