AI Leads the Innovation & Technology Ecosystem: Smart Tourism, Smart Logistics, and Smart Transport Solutions Fully Unleash Their Potential

HONG KONG, Nov. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The Awards Presentation Ceremony of the 2025 Hong Kong ICT Awards: Smart Mobility Award, steered by the Digital Policy Office and organised by GS1 Hong Kong, was successfully held on 21 November.

Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK) emerged as the standout winner of the year. Its innovative digital logistics solutions won three awards, including Smart Mobility Grand Award, Smart Mobility (Smart Logistics) Gold Award, and Smart Mobility (Smart Logistics) Silver Award.

Smart Mobility Award recognises outstanding solutions in smart tourism, smart logistics, and smart transport. Following a rigorous preliminary evaluation by the judging panel, the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Awards, along with Certificates of Merit and the special “Best Use of AI Award”, were presented to the final winners.

AAHK’s Digitalised Solution: Demonstrating Dual Benefits of Efficiency and Environmental Protection

Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK) was awarded both the Smart Mobility Grand Award and Smart Mobility (Smart Logistics) Gold Award for its “Hong Kong Air Import SmartCollect”. This solution supports the issuance of electronic Shipment Release Form (eSRF) and allows enterprises to complete payments and verification online without the need to queue in person, thereby streamlining the import cargo collection journey. It also facilitates the cargo inspection process of government regulators and enhances overall supply chain transparency and efficiency.

HKIA Cargo Connect, another winning entry from AAHK, was awarded the Smart Mobility (Smart Logistics) Silver Award. The platform addresses the industry’s fragmented resources challenges by providing an innovative, intelligent, and interconnected digital ecosystem for air cargo industry. This enables airlines to rapidly establish collaborative networks and optimise resource utilisation.

By digitising these processes, the two solutions not only accelerate logistics efficiency, but also significantly reduce paper consumption. These has bolstered environmental goals and sustainable development, further enhancing Hong Kong International Airport’s position as the leading air cargo hub in the world.

AI Powers Diverse Innovations, Fueling Smart Mobility and Event Economy

The other winning entries of this year’s ICT Awards – Smart Mobility Awards showcased the diversity and practical value of Hong Kong’s innovations, including:

• Smart Transport: Leveraging AI combined with big data models to automatically identify road issues, helping alleviate traffic congestion
• Smart Tourism (Event Economy): The use of intelligent crowd management technology to analyse real-time crowd data, optimise venue management and enhance the experience of participants at large-scale events
• Smart Tourism (Marketing): Platforms that analyse data from major social media platforms to help the hotel industry precisely target potential customers and develop more effective marketing strategies

All award-winning entries exemplify the seamless integration of technologies like AI, Big Data, and the Internet of Things (IoT) into practical applications. For the complete winners list, please see the table below.

To learn more about the details of each winning entry, visit our website at: https://www.gs1hk.org/SmartMobilityAward.

GS1 HK: Fostering Cross-sector Collaboration, Developing Hong Kong as International Innovation and Technology Centre

Ms. Anna Lin, Chief Executive of GS1 HK congratulated all the award winners and expressed her great pleasure at the dynamic growth of Hong Kong’s innovation and technology ecosystem.

She highlighted that while the government has committed substantial resources, the industry is also seizing opportunities to innovate and transform, “This year’s winners come from diverse sectors, applying advanced technologies such as AI, Big Data, and IoT. These cross-sector collaborations not only expand the boundaries of technology application but also serve as innovative examples to the industries, inspiring more talents to join the IT field. GS1 HK will continue to work closely with the government and partners from different sectors to jointly drive Hong Kong’s development into international innovation and technology centre.”

Winners of the 2025 Hong Kong ICT Awards – Smart Mobility Award

(Listed in alphabetical order by English company / organisation name)

To learn more about the Smart Mobility Award and the award-winning entries, please visit: https://www.gs1hk.org/SmartMobilityAward

About GS1 Hong Kong

Founded by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce in 1989, GS1 Hong Kong is the local chapter of GS1^®. GS1 Hong Kong’s mission is to empower businesses of their digital transformation, improve supply chain visibility and efficiency, ensure product authenticity, facilitate commerce connectivity and enable sustainable value chain through the provision of global supply chain standards (including GTIN & barcodes), and a full spectrum of platforms, solutions and services.

GS1 Hong Kong currently supports close to 8,000 corporate members from 20 sectors including retail & consumer packaged goods, food & beverage and food services, healthcare, apparel & footwear, logistics & ICT. By working closely with communities of trading partners, industry organizations, government, and technology providers, we can foster a collaborative ecosystem, paving the way for “Smarter Business, Better Life”.

Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, GS1® is a not-for-profit, standards organisation that has 115+ national chapters serving 150 economies globally. For more information, please visit www.gs1hk.org.