姚思榮

English

Yiu Si-wing was born in Hong Kong on 25 February 1955 and studied at Hon Wah College. He became vice-chairman of China Travel Service (Hong Kong) and served as deputy general manager of China Travel Service (Holdings) Hong Kong and vice-chairman of the Travel Industry Council, after joining China Travel Service in 1973 and working in tourism for more than four decades, rising from trainee to management and becoming familiar with both the mainland and local markets and the handling of incoming mainland visitors. He was honorary chairman of the Hong Kong Association of China Travel Organisers and honorary adviser to the inbound tour operators' association, and sat on the Election Committee for the Chief Executive; in 2012 he nominated Leung Chun-ying. On 9 September 2012 he was elected to the Legislative Council for the tourism functional constituency with 523 votes, defeating Yip Hing-ning of Goldjoy Holidays, and served until December 2021. In office he focused on industry regulation and workers' rights, pressing the police over unlicensed mainland tour guides and securing exemptions from travel-agency and hotel licence fees, extra funding to promote tourism, subsidies for information technology and better coach parking in tourist districts. He sat on the Lantau Development Advisory Committee and, after the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge opened in 2018, argued that the bridge itself was a sight, urging fuller use of that crossing and the high-speed rail link to build diverse tour routes and closer coordination with mainland tourism authorities, while calling for better guide training. During the 2019 unrest he said tourism had been badly hit and urged a swift return to order, and during the 2020 pandemic he pressed the government and landlords for rent relief and job-saving support.