{"id":388678,"date":"2026-01-24T22:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/388678\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T22:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:06:08","slug":"global-mobility-news-from-visahq-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/388678\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Mobility News from VisaHQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 24, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Guangdong-to-Hong Kong \u2018Southbound\u2019 self-drive scheme tops 2,500 applications in first month<\/p>\n<p>One month after launch, Hong Kong\u2019s new southbound self-drive scheme has attracted more than 2,500 Guangdong motorists and 1,000 confirmed trips, prompting calls to raise the 2,000-vehicle daily quota ahead of the Lunar New Year peak.  Hoteliers report rising occupancy from self-drive visitors, underscoring the programme\u2019s potential to spread tourist spending and accelerate Greater Bay Area integration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 24, 2026 Guangdong-to-Hong Kong \u2018Southbound\u2019 self-drive scheme tops 2,500 applications in first month One month after launch,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-388678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}