Tourism in Hong Kong


The International Commerce Centre ( ICC) building in West Kowloon is the tallest building in Hong Kong.
The Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong occupies the top section, 102-118th floor, of ICC.
This was photographed in December 2012 by Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D.,PhD.

The total tourism expenditure associated to inbound tourism reached HK$7,333 per capita in 2011. According
to the Hong Kong Tourism Board. Overall visitor arrivals to Hong Kong in 2010 totaled just over 36 million,
a 21.8% increase over the previous year. The numbers included approximately 22.5 million Chinese people
arrived from the mainland, 8.2 million short-haul, excluding Mainland, arrivals, and 4.8 million long-haul arrivals.
In July 2011 more than 3.8 million visitors arrived in Hong Kong, which is equivalent to more than half Hong
Kong's population and setting an outright record for a single month.
Source: Wikipedia

Hotels in Kowloon Peninsula


The Peninsula Hong Kong is one of the most luxurious hotels in Hongkong. Grand deluxe Kowloon view rooms are located from
floors 17 to 27. The total number of guest rooms is 297. Smoking rooms are c.30.

The lobby of Peninsula Hong Kong
A performance of singing in a lobby of Peninsula Hong Kong


The exterior at Christmas time of Peninsula Hong Kong and a cigar shop on the lobby floor

The Langham Hong Kong presents a refined European-style atmosphere and provides a total of 495 guest rooms.
Forty smoking rooms are located on the 5th floor.

A lobby and the pass-way to a restaurant of the Langham Hong Kong

Langham Place

(L) Langham Place Hotel: This hotel has a total of 665 guest rooms, and the number of smoking rooms is 70.
(M) Hotel Icon Hong Kong has a total of 262 rooms. Smoking rooms are 38.
(R) Hotel Nikko Hong Kong has a total of 463 rooms. Smoking rooms are 80. A plan is on the way to decrease it to one floor.

(L) Intercontinantal Grand Stanford: This hotel has a total of 570 rooms, and the number of smoking rooms is 90.
(R) The exterior and lobby of the Kowloon Shangri-La, Hong Kong:
The total number of guest rooms is 688, of which smoking rooms are 201.

(L) Sheraton Hotel & Towers Hong Kong has a total 782 rooms. Smoking rooms are 68, which located on the 7th floor.
(M) The Kowloon Hotel has a total 736 rooms. Smoking rooms are 165.
(R) Hiliday Inn Golden Mile HongKong has a total of 614 rooms. Smoking rooms are 128.

(L) Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, Tsim Sha Tsui Hotel has total 381 guest rooms. The number of smoking rooms is circa 72.
(R) No-smoking sign in a room: HK$1,000 will be charged for smoking in the room.

Mira Hong Kong is a smoke-free design hotel. It has 492 guest rooms. No smoking rooms are provided.
However, on the 5th floor, there is a designated outside smoking area.

Marco Polo Hong Kong Hotel has a total of 664 guest rooms. Three floors are provided for smokers.
The number of smoking rooms is 165.

(L) A lobby restaurant and decorated stair of the Intercontinental Hong Kong:
This hotel is faced on the Victoria Bay and provide a good view of the illumination show at the skyscraper of Hong Kong Island.
Intercontinental hotel has a total of 503 guest rooms. Smoking rooms are located on the 8th and 14th floor.
The number is 40 and 33, respectively, totaling 73.
(R) The picture shows the entrance to the W-Hotel, Hong Kong. The W-Hotel floors are located between 16th and 38th floor.
It has 393 guest rooms. Smoking floors are 18th and 35th. The total number of smoking room is 37.

(L) The main entrance to the Ritz-Carlton (R) A view from the carriage porch of the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong
The Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong occupies the top section, 102-118th floor of the ICC, and it has a total of 312 rooms.
The number of smoking rooms is 64, which located on the 106, 109 and 111th floor.

Hotels in Hong Kong Island

J.W.Marriott Hotel, Hong Kong: The hotel contains 602 hotel rooms and suites. The numbers of smoking rooms are 95.

Conrad Hong Kong hotel: (L) Exterior (M) An outdoor pool (R) A connecting walkway to Island Shangr-la Hotel
The Conrad has 512 guest rooms and suites. The numbers of smoking rooms are 48, which locate on the 49the and 50th floor.

Island Shangri-La Hong Kong 565 guest rooms and suites. The numbers of smoking rooms are 102,
which locate on the floor of 41, 46 and 52.

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(L) The Upper House Hong Kong has a total of 117 rooms. All rooms are non-smoking. Smoking-booth is not provided inside.
Smokers have to get down to the fist floor and go outside for smoking.
This hotel in the Pacific Place first became smokefree in March 2010.
(R) Renaissance Harbour View Hotel Hong Kong has 857 rooms in total. Smoking rooms are 59.

Grand Hyatt Hong Kong has a total of 549 rooms. Three floors are designated for smokers. The number of smoking rooms is 84.

(L) Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong has total 501 guest rooms. Smoking rooms are 116.
They are located on the 41, 51, 21 and 16th floor.Each floor has 29 smoking guest rooms.
(R) Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong, a pat of the Ifc building, provides a total of 399 guest rooms, of which smoking rooms are 65.

(L) The ' ifc' building, International Finance Centre, The tower is the second tallest building in Hong Kong.
(R) The entrance to 'ifc' mail and a Christmas display at the hall of 'ifc' mall

Smoking Ban in Hotels in Hong Kong

Smoking in public in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has been banned from 2007 under the revised
Public Health Ordinance, first enacted in 1982. The later amendment enlarged the smoking ban to include indoor
work places, public places, including restaurants, public toilet, beaches and parks.

Hotel rooms are, in many countries, exempted from the smoking restriction law. On this hotel research, it was
found the smoking-room ratio to the total guest rooms was not over than that of expected. Surprisingly, in Macau,
the smoking-room ratio was very high in some hotels. Hotel Lisbona's smoking-room was 91.7% of the total
rooms. Hotel Grand Lisbona Macau also showed a high smoking-room ratio of 87.1%.

In Hong Kong, the smoking-room ratio is not over the 30%, which appears to be the highest ratio set in the smoke-
free law of the world. It was pleased to know that two hotels, both The Upper House and The Mira, are smokefree.
I hope almost all hotels would change their policy to abolish a smoking room in a hotel, such as in most of Canada
and the United States.



A smoking-room ratio (percentage) in the major hotels in Hong Kong:
Two hotels, The Mira and The Upper Hourse are smoke-free.
Copyright (C) 2012 Junhaku Miyamoto

The Peninsula Hong Kong: Total 297 rooms/smoking c.30 rooms ( 10.1% )
The Langham Hong Kong: Total 495 rooms/smoking 40 rooms (8.1 % )
Langham Place Hotel: Total 665 rooms/smoking 70 rooms ( 10.5%)
Hotel Icon Hong Kong: Total 262 rooms/ smoking 38 rooms (14.5% )
Hotel Nikko Hong Kong: Total 463 rooms/ smoking 80 rooms (17.3% )
International Grand Stanford: Total 570 rooms/ smoking 90 rooms ( 15.8% )
Kowloon Shangri-La Hong Kong: Total 688 rooms/ smoking 201 rooms ( 29.2% )
The Kowloon Hotel: Total 736 rooms/smoking rooms 165 rooms (22.4%)
Hiliday Inn Golden Mile Hong Kong: Total 614 rooms/smoking 128 rooms ( 20.8% )

Sheraton Hotels & Towers Hong Kong: Total 782 rooms/ smoking 68 rooms ( 8.7% )
Hyatt Regency Hong Kong: Total 381 rooms/ smoking 72 rooms ( 18.9% )
Mira Hong Kong: Total 492 rooms/ smoking 0 rooms ( 0% )
Marco Polo Hong Kong: Total 664 rooms/ smoking 165 rooms( 24.8% )
Intercontinental Hong Kong: Total 503 rooms/ smoking 73 rooms ( 14.5% )
W-Hotel Hong Kong： Ｔotal 393 rooms/ smoking 37 rooms ( 9.4% )
Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong: Total 312 rooms/ smoking 64 rooms ( 20.5% )

J.W.Marriott Hotel Hong Kong: Total 602 rooms/ smoking 95 rooms ( 15.8% )
Conrad Hong Kong Hotel: Total 512 rooms/ smoking 48 rooms ( 9.4% )
Island Shangri-La Hong Kong: Total 565 rooms/ smoking 102 rooms ( 18.1% )
The Upper House Hong Kong: Total 117 rooms/ smoking 0 rooms ( 0% )
Renaissance Harbour View Hotel Hong Kong: Total 857 rooms/ smoking 59 rooms ( 6.9% )
Grand Hyatt Hong Kong: Total 549 rooms/ smoking 84 rooms ( 15.3% )
Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong: Total 501 rooms/ smoking 116 rooms ( 23.2% )
Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong: Total 399 rooms/ smoking 65 rooms ( 16.3% )

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Smoking Restriction at Hotels in the World: Actual Survey
The ratio of a non-smoking guest room to the total hotel rooms was calculated,
based on-the-spot investigation.

　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels at Tokyo
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels in Korea
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels at Macau
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels at Bangkok
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels at Hong Kong
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels at Vancouver
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels at Seattle
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels at San Francisco
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels at Shanghai

　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels at Nice
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels at Berlin
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels in Austria
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels in Germany
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels in Switzerland
　Total smoking Ban in hotels at Moscow, Russia
　Total smoking Ban in hotels at Saint Pertersburg, Russia
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels of Canberra and Sydney
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels of Gold Coast
　Non-smoking-room ratioin hotels in Canberra, Sydney, Australia
　Non-smoking-room ratioin hotels in the east-coast sea resort, Australia

　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels in Norway Oslo
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels in Norway Bergen
　Non-smoking-room ratio in hotels in Norway Fjord

Smoke-free hotels in Japan
Smoke-free hotels in Tokyo
Smoke-free hotels in Kyoto and Nara, Japan


A partial smoking bans in hotels do not protect guests from dangers of tobacco.

Hotels, that have the smoking and non-smoking rooms, do not adequately protect people from the dangers of
tobacco. That is the conclusion of a new San Diego State University study published in the Journal Tobacco Control.

Researchers took air quality readings and tested surfaces for evidence of tobacco-smoke in a random sample of
San Diego hotel rooms. Ten hotels had complete smoking bans while 30 others had some dedicated non-smoking
rooms. Compared with hotels that prohibit smoking, hotels with only partial bans had higher surface and air
nicotine levels.

That was true even in the non-smoking rooms in hotels with a partial ban. Only five U.S. states , Indiana, Michigan,
North Dakota, Vermond and Wisconsin, require all motel and hotel rooms to be smoke free. Four cities in California,
including Santa Monica, have such a law. Researchers say guests who want to avoid tobacco exposure should stay
only in smoke-free hotels.
Source: KPBS, San Diego, May 15, 2013

香港では1982年の段階より受動喫煙防止法が公布され、市民の健康を守って来ている。規制範囲は年々拡大され、今では
レストラン、商社商店、銀行、官庁など公共的施設が全面禁煙となっている。2011年1月から条例を施行したマカオに比べ
非常に速い時点から受動喫煙防止に取り組んだその姿勢は、最近の長寿世界一位の座を勝ち取った一因ともなったと考えられる。

ホテル喫煙客室の割合は30%以下に抑えられ、多くは20%以下となっている。二つのホテルでは喫煙客室を廃止して完全な
スモークフリーとなっている。北米などで見られる禁煙化を先取りしていると思える。こうした状況を見るにつけ、飲食店など
の「分煙体制」を目標とし、全面禁煙に対しては何もプランを持ち合わせていない日本の政治状況、国民意識を考えると、
恥ずかしいとしか言いようがない。

A performance of singing in a lobby of Peninsula Hotel at Hong Kong

Hong Kong/Macau
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香港ホテル
撮影　2012年12月 　執筆　2013年1月　医学博士　宮本順伯
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A photograph was taken in December 2012, and article was written in January 2013,
and information was added in June 2019, by Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D., PhD.


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