The officials from the Guilin Municipal Bureau of Culture, Broadcasting, and Tourism promote the city's cultural and tourism resources at the event, seeking to strengthen communication and cooperation with Hong Kong's tourism industry. (PHOTO / CHINA DAILY)

The Hong Kong International Travel Expo is back in the city.

ITE Hong Kong 2023 - The 37th International Travel Expo runs from Thursday through Sunday. The scale of this year’s event doubled from last year, and is expected to reach 80 percent of ITE 2019, the pre-pandemic level.

Over 400 exhibitors from 50 countries and regions – including popular destinations such as the Chinese mainland, Thailand, South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region – are taking part in the event. The mainland pavilion, which is over 1.5 times bigger than that of 2019, has the largest expansion and remains the largest.

ITE 2023 features many special travel themes, including the Greater Bay Area, culture, honeymoon, youth study, green and outdoor, etc.

China Daily's Edmond Tang took the photos on Thursday.