We extract attraction metadata, event calendars, dining directories, and accommodation listings from the Hong Kong Tourism Board. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.
Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.
Complete list of extractable fields for Attractions objects from hktb.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"attraction_id": "ATT-8492", "name": "Victoria Peak", "category": "Sightseeing", "district": "Central", "latitude": 22.2759, "longitude": 114.1455, "opening_hours": "07:00-22:00", "ticket_info": "Free entry to public areas"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Dining & Nightlife objects from hktb.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"venue_id": "DIN-3310", "restaurant_name": "Tim Ho Wan", "cuisine_type": "Dim Sum", "district": "Sham Shui Po", "michelin_status": "One Star", "price_tier": "Low", "address": "G/F, 9-11 Fuk Wing Street", "contact_number": "+852 2788 1226"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Events & Festivals objects from hktb.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"event_id": "EVT-9921", "event_name": "Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival", "category": "Food & Drink", "start_date": "2026-10-22", "end_date": "2026-10-26", "venue_name": "Central Harbourfront", "admission_fee": "HKD 40", "status": "Scheduled"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Accommodation objects from hktb.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"hotel_id": "ACC-1045", "hotel_name": "The Peninsula Hong Kong", "star_rating": 5, "district": "Tsim Sha Tsui", "room_count": 300, "amenities": "['Spa', 'Pool', 'Helipad', 'Fine Dining']", "website_url": "https://www.peninsula.com", "contact_email": "phk@peninsula.com"
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Complete list of extractable fields for MICE Venues objects from hktb.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"venue_id": "MICE-003", "venue_name": "Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre", "facility_type": "Exhibition Centre", "total_capacity": 20000, "floor_area_sqm": 91500, "meeting_rooms_count": 52, "district": "Wan Chai", "contact_email": "info@hkcec.com"
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Our hktb.com scraper handles dynamic maps, multi-language state toggles, and lazy-loaded media directories to extract a complete, normalised dataset of Hong Kong's tourism infrastructure.
Capture names, descriptions, opening hours, ticket prices, and accessibility information for every listed point of interest.
Extract restaurant metadata including cuisine types, price tiers, Michelin ratings, and reservation contact details.
Track upcoming festivals, exhibitions, and seasonal events with start dates, end dates, and ticketing links.
Scrape hotel and guesthouse directories, capturing star ratings, district locations, and direct booking URLs.
Extract business tourism data including floor plans, maximum capacities, meeting room counts, and direct contact details.
Run parallel extractions across English, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese locales, mapping records to a unified schema.
Parse interactive map payloads to extract precise latitude and longitude coordinates for spatial analysis.
Extract recommended travel routes, stop sequences, transit modes, and estimated durations from official HKTB itineraries.
Monitor directories for new venue additions, event schedule changes, and seasonal promotions with delta-only delivery.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Provide target categories, required languages, and update frequencies. We design the extraction schema together.
We configure Scrapy and Playwright crawlers to handle hktb.com's dynamic rendering and language states.
Schema validation, null-rate checks, and coordinate accuracy verification before full launch.
JSON, CSV, or Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.
Government tourism portals rely heavily on client-side rendering and complex state management. Here is how we ensure data completeness.
Location coordinates on hktb.com are often embedded in complex JavaScript map objects rather than standard HTML attributes. We execute full browser sessions to intercept map API responses and extract clean spatial data.
Content variations exist between English and Chinese versions of the site. We manage session cookies and URL parameters to scrape all requested locales simultaneously, linking corresponding records via a unified ID.
Extensive directories like dining and accommodation rely on infinite scroll and asynchronous pagination. Our Playwright scripts simulate human scrolling patterns to ensure the entire catalogue is loaded before extraction.
Tourism sites frequently deploy interstitial popups for seasonal promotions or travel advisories. Our infrastructure automatically detects and clears these blocking elements to prevent pipeline failures.
We bypass thumbnail placeholders to locate and extract URLs for high-resolution gallery images, essential for travel aggregator platforms requiring quality visual assets.
OTA platforms sync official attraction details, opening hours, and high-quality imagery to enrich their own product listings.
Hotel chains analyse accommodation density and district-level dining options to inform new property developments.
Corporate event planners monitor venue capacities and local event calendars to optimise conference scheduling.
Machine learning teams use structured itinerary and attraction data to train conversational agents for travel planning.
Retailers correlate event schedules and attraction proximity with expected foot traffic to optimise staffing.
Mobility providers use event dates and venue locations to forecast demand spikes and adjust fleet deployment.
"The Hong Kong Tourism Board maintains the most authoritative directory of local attractions and events, but extracting it requires parsing complex interactive maps and multi-language states."
Most teams underestimate the difficulty of scraping government-backed tourism portals. Reliable hktb.com extraction requires handling dynamic JavaScript maps, stateful language toggles, and heavy lazy-loaded media directories. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on product development rather than DOM maintenance.
Everything supported by our hktb.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.
Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.
Scrapy handles crawl orchestration, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.
We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required. IP score monitoring prevents blacklisted pool contamination.
Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.
Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.
About hktb.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping publicly available directory information is generally permissible. DataFlirt extracts only public, non-authenticated tourism data. We do not bypass login walls for partner portals. Clients must ensure their specific use case complies with relevant data usage regulations.
We configure our crawlers to navigate the site using specific locale parameters (en, tc, sc). We extract the data in parallel and map corresponding entities to a single unified record in your database.
Yes. We intercept the network requests made by the interactive map components to extract the raw JSON payloads, yielding accurate latitude and longitude data for attractions and venues.
We support daily, weekly, or monthly cadences. For event data, a daily differential run is optimal to capture newly announced festivals or schedule changes without redundant processing.
Yes. We target the dedicated business tourism sections of the site to extract venue capacities, floor plans, and contact details for corporate event planning.
Yes. We provide a sample run covering a specific district or category to validate schema fit and data completeness before formal engagement.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a one-off extraction of the dining directory or a continuous feed of event schedules. Tell us what you need.
