Hong Kon is expecting to reap the benefits from major movie releases this summer that were filmed on location in Hong Kong.

The Dark Knight has received much public interest recently as it starred Heath Ledger as the Joker and also Christian Bale as Batman.  Some of the film was filmed in Hong Kong as Batman leaps off the International Finance Centre’s roof at Victoria Harbour and the Peninsula Hotel was also featured.

Another film release this summer is the animated film Kung Fu Panda with Jackie Chan.  A new attraction will be opening at Hong Kong Ocean Park theme park to celebrate the film.  The theme park is one of the rare parks worldwide that homes four giant pandas.

Hong Kong Disneyland is also not missing out on the action.  They’ll be running their version of the boat ride It’s A Small Workd, featuring 38 Disney characters and over two hundred moving figures.

Many people consider Hong Kong one of life’s luxury holidays or a great city break destination.  Flights run from many major UK airports.

Hong Kong International has been named the world’s best airport for the seventh time in a row at the 2008 Skytrax World Airport Awards ceremony.

This is only the tenth anniversary for the awards and Hong Kong has won seven times.  This year travellers completed an amazing 8.2 million interviews.

Runner up airports were Singapore Changi, Seoul Incheon, Kuala Lumpur international and Munich airport.

Edward Plaisted, chief executive of Skytrax, an airline and airport quality advice organisation, said:

“Hong Kong international airport is winner of [the] world’s best airport title for the seventh time in ten years.  To retain this title among such strong competition is clear testament to an airport that is satisfying its customers at the highest level, and demonstrating a true commitment to service excellence.”

For Southern Europe, Athens, Madrid Barajas and Istanbul were the top three airports.  In the Australia / Pacific category, it was Brisbane, Auckland and Adelaide.

For North America, San Francisco took the top prize and for Africa, Cape Town was awarded best airport.

For those who love their holiday deals to Hong Kong, many will be pleased to hear that Virgin Atlantic is set to add an extra daily flight on its route from London Heathrow airport and Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is a vibrant, thriving city and is particularly popular with those searching for city breaks further afield as you can often pick up bargain holidays to the city.  From the 5th December this year, Virgin Atlantic will now run two daily flights from London to Hong Kong.  Indeed, the airline has said that Hong Kong is its third busiest route, beaten only by flights to New York’s JFK airport and Dubai.

Hong Kong is not only a popular route with business men, but also with city break lovers and also for those travelling to Australia.  Hong Kong is a popular stop off for those travelling to Sydney and many choose to lengthen their stay into two or three days.

The Chief Executive for Virgin Atlantic, Steve Ridgway, is quoted as saying:

“East is the new west and this second daily service will offer our passengers even more opportunities via Hong Kong, which is the third busiest long-haul route out of Heathrow after New York’s JFK and Dubai.  Virgin Atlantic, which is highly committed to the city and the Pearl River Delta, has flown well over 2m passengers on this route since we started flying in 1994 and it remains one of our most popular services.”