Feature: Covid-hit Businesses Zoom Ahead

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2020-09-28 HKT 05:05

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  • Feature: Covid-hit businesses zoom ahead

  • Shifting online may even outlast the pandemic and become a permanent way of working. Photo: RTHK

    Shifting online may even outlast the pandemic and become a permanent way of working. Photo: RTHK

Tourism-related businesses have been among the worst-hit by the economic devastation brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic.

With global travel remaining at a virtual standstill, many businesses were forced to adapt, or go bust.

RTHK’s Priscilla Ng found out how some hard-hit firms have branched out to find new opportunities online, and developed innovations that they think could even outlast the effects of the pandemic.

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