Hong Kong’s tourist figures have continued to lag below pre-pandemic levels, with May’s 3.4 million provisional visitor arrivals just 57 per cent of the 5.9 million recorded in May 2019. Since fully reopening its borders last February after three years of Covid-related isolation, Hong Kong’s tourism recovery has been led by visitors from mainland China. In May, 2.6 million arrivals came from north of the border, accounting for 77 per cent of the month’s total, according to data released by the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) on Monday. Other markets have been slower to rebound, in part because …