Originally Posted by
hkskyline
Mass discounts for targeted groups of people are commonplace worldwide, not just in developing countries. AAA members get good rates at hotels and motels in the US. Certain credit cards offer discounts for meals and airfares. Children and seniors get discounted transit and airplane fares. That's all discrimination as well - why should the same seat, same room, or same service cost less to certain people?
Well in HK, businesses are very free to contract, and practice price discrimination to the nth degree in doing so.
But I think discrimination by nationality just crossed one of the few red lines there are here. They can give the discount to all visitors, but they can't discriminate by
nationality.
Unfortunately the marketing agency is Ctrip and the accomodation purchase is done within China, so I don't see how Ctrip can be dragged into EOC HK.
Furthermore, Ctrip (being a Chinese company) can say it is only favouring
locals from its point of view.