![]() Many of the villages in the New Territories have suffered depopulation and economic stagnation. These rural areas have largely missed out on the economic miracle that is Hong Kong, in general, and on the tourism miracle, in particular. Most of the undeveloped land can be found in the New Territories or on outlying islands. While many people consider Hong Kong to be one of the world’s most densely populated cities, in reality about three quarters of its 1,092 sq km landmass is undeveloped and almost 40% of it is gazetted as country park (AFCD 2004). It is this compactness that gives the city its distinctive skyline. The degree of spatial selectivity is especially noticeable in a place like Hong Kong, where the Special Administrative Region’s (SAR) mountainous topography dictates that all development is concentrated tightly along the coastal fringes of Victoria Harbor, on reclaimed land, or in bedroom suburbs located in lowland areas of the New Territories (HKY 2001). Tourism is a spatially selective activity that is clustered in relatively compact areas focused around shopping and business precincts or anchored by primary attractions (Tunbridge and Ashworth 1996).
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