Cheap and illegal: mainlanders post social media adverts for services in Hong Kong - South China Morning Post
Leopold ChenandFiona ChowPublished: 8:35am, 30 Sep 2026Updated: 8:42am, 30 Sep 2026Hong Kong’s crackdown on visitors abusing visas to illegally offer tour guide, photography and other services has failed to deter adverts for such unlicensed work on mainland Chinese social media ahead of the National Day “golden week” break, the South China Morning Post has found.A search of RedNote by the SCMP turned up accounts listing themselves as Shenzhen-based photographers offering their services in Hong Kong.
Many of them also asked clients to reimburse their travel expenses between the two cities.
One of them offered photography services at Hong Kong Disneyland at 220 yuan (US$33) per hour, with a minimum booking of two hours in addition to travel costs of about 120 yuan.
