Hong Kong and Macao remains popular with mainland travelers during the upcoming Spring Festival holiday season, an online survey has showed.

About 11 percent of people polled in an online survey released by market research firm Nielsen during the weekend picked overseas travel destinations over domestic ones for the coming vacation, with the top three places for short-haul trips being Hong Kong (60 percent), Taiwan (29 percent) and Macao (23 percent).

“In these challenging economic times, travelers on the mainland are looking for ways to save, including organizing trips themselves and planning short- to medium- haul trips,” said Grace Pan, head of travel and leisure research at Nielsen’s China operations.

“All the 400 seats in our Taiwan tour groups were booked 20 days before the deadline and we have at least one group leaving for the island every day of the holiday period,” said Zhang Qingzhu, a marketing manager with China Comfort Travel Ltd.

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Our visit at Hong Kong Disneyland. It happened to be Halloween season, and the resort had featured plenty of Halloween settings alongside its “traditional” stuff. We went straight to the Fantasyland – which is at the other end from the entrance – to take pictures with the cartoon characters. The queue could become pretty long if the crowd started to pour in, it should be a good idea to skip other stuff at first and head to Fantasyland ASAP for photo shooting.

There are some (short) musical shows that are worth watching in Disneyland. We went to The Golden Mickeys and Festival of the Lion King; both were great.

Golden Mickeys was a show mimicking the Oscar awards, which featured various cartoon characters and stories, e.g. The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Mulan, Lilo and Stitch, and also the iconic Mickey, Minnie, Donald etc.; while Festival of the Lion King was based on 1994 animated movie, The Lion King.

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