Hong Kong events industry pleads for a lifeline as pandemic wipes out trade shows, putting thousands of jobs at risk

Exhibition planner Joe Wong Chu-kong’s heart sank when the annual Hong Kong Book Fair was cancelled two days before it was due to open last month.His team of workers had spent four weeks setting up booths for exhibitors, and now they had to remove everything and clear out of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai.“I called my truck drivers who were on the way to deliver materials and told them to just turn around and call it a day,” recalled Wong, a project manager for Toy…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3098462/hong-kong-events-industry-pleads-lifeline-pandemic