另外，部份中國大陸旅客到香港搏命買日用品（譬如嬰兒配方奶粉），或者走私水貨。對自由行旅客行為欠缺文明嘅批評不斷增加，有香港人認為內地人掠奪香港社會嘅資源、侵蝕香港核心價值，亦稱呼呢啲旅客做「蝗蟲」。
In addition, some Chinese mainland tourists come to Hong Kong desperately to buy daily necessities (such as infant formula) or smuggle parallel goods. Criticism of the uncivilized behaviour of individual travellers has been on the rise, with some Hong Kongers calling them "locusts" who believe that mainlanders have plundered Hong Kong's social resources and eroded Hong Kong's core values.