The Hong Kong Island skyline, with its ever-growing number of skyscrapers, speaks to ambition and money. Paris, London, even New York were centuries in the making, while Hong Kong’s towers, bright lights, and glitzy shopping emporia weren’t yet part of the urban scene when many of the young investment bankers who fuel one of the world’s leading financial centers were born.

I updated the Shopping, Exploring, Hotel and Neighborhood chapters in the 2013 and 2015 editions of Fodor’s Hong Kong guidebooks. Find the online versions here.