[Narration] Mirador Mansion is located on Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, one of the busiest sections of Hong Kong. There are many hotels in the building, and it has been a "housing place" for backpackers around the world. At 8 o'clock in the evening, it was the busiest time for passengers to check in, but the Monaco Tower in the Mirador Mansion, and even the busy Nathan Road, were deserted at this moment. The founding chairman of the Hong Kong Hotel Industry Association, David Liang, lamented that an epidemic had become the last straw that crushed the hotel industry.

[Contemporary] David Liang, Founding Chairman, Hong Kong Hotel Association

Since there was a riot last year, 90% of the business has been lost, 90%. The outbreak has now occurred and (the turnover) has become zero. Our blood had been drained in the previous eight months and we had no money to vomit again. If the epidemic does not recover by April, I estimate that more than 500 hotels in Hong Kong will be closed and more than 2,000 people will lose their jobs.

[Explanation] The beginning of the hotel industry in Hong Kong began at the end of the last epidemic. After the "SARS" in 2003, the country introduced a policy for individual residents to visit Hong Kong from the Mainland, injecting a boost into the development of Hong Kong, which has been abolished after the epidemic. In the ten years since then, the growth rate of individual travellers has reached an average of 23% per year. After the implementation of the “one sign and multiple trips” policy in 2009, the number of visitors has exploded. This has also become the "golden decade" of the hotel industry in Hong Kong, and the number of hotels in Hong Kong has soared more than tenfold.

[Contemporary] David Liang, Founding Chairman, Hong Kong Hotel Association

Hong Kong was the most prosperous from 2007 to 2013 because it was the peak of free travel. All walks of life were well-groomed. Red envelopes of 100 yuan and 500 yuan were distributed everywhere. Some people opened 20 branches and ten or eight in these ten years. very normal. Starting from June last year, from 20, half closed down to ten, ten changed to five, five now become one, one has closed down, completely reversed. The prosperous and prosperous laborious establishment of more than ten years, overnight, months were gone.

[Explanation] The Mirador Mansion was established in 1959 and has witnessed the changes in Hong Kong for half a century. Over the age of seventy, Liu Yanming was one of the first hotel owners to settle in the Mirador Mansion. Forty years ago, Liu Yanming and his wife opened their first hotel in the Mirador Mansion: the Universe Hotel, which at the peak expanded to more than 100 rooms.

[Concurrent] Hong Kong Hotel Owner Liu Yanming

The hotel was full, and many people exploded under the bed and in the corridor. All come in groups, the entire beautiful city building, all at once, the entire elevator (all people), seventy or eighty people, one hundred people and three hundred people come here.

[Explanation] Liu Yanming and his wife put their home in this hotel. The husband and wife are guarding day and night. Liu Yanming is responsible for management and maintenance, and his wife is responsible for reception and accounting. Although the hotel is small, the flow of passengers is endless, and they hurriedly walked, leaving many stories behind.

[Concurrent] Hong Kong Hotel Owner Liu Yanming

The entire wall was covered with their thank-you letters, and some people met us here, and returned to us to get married. We bought them a stereo, bought (decorations), and held a wedding party for them in the hallway. The hallway was packed with eighty or ninety people, and there were a hundred people. We provide food and drink for free, buffet , Very happy.

[Explanation] There are more than a hundred rooms owned by Liu Yanming, and now there are only a dozen or so. Most of them have been changed to long-term lease or contracted to others. The photos and thank you letters on the wall have been ripped off by the new tenants. But Liu Yanming said, "The story will continue, the epidemic will eventually pass, and human disaster is the most frustrating."

[Concurrent] Hong Kong Hotel Owner Liu Yanming

The most lost time is watching those people make trouble. Because this is a human calamity, it is caused by people, so you do n’t know when it is going to happen. SARS is a natural disaster. You can unite (solve) natural disasters. But since the epidemic, people's hearts have split. This is the most important thing, and unity has strength.

Reporter Chen Shuo reports from Hong Kong

Editor-in-chief: [Ji Xiang]