Taiwan seeks more mainland visitors
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00:18 UTC+8 January 26, 2011
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TAIWAN has proposed that up to 500 people from Chinese mainland a day can visit the island as individual tourists.
Government officials said yesterday that individual visitors would be limited to stays of up to 15 days. The quota would be in addition to an existing limit of 4,000 mainland tourists per day allowed on group tours.
Opening up to individual tourists is the next stage in boosting economic ties between the two sides, who signed of a landmark trade deal last year.
Mainland tour groups accounted for 1.63 million visitors in 2010, up 68 percent from 2009, and for the first time the number of mainland tourists exceeded those from Japan, for decades Taiwan's biggest source of visitors.
Taiwan's tourism shares sub-index has risen some 30 percent in the last year on hopes of an influx of mainland tourists, and a number of luxury hotels have opened or are under construction to meet demand.
The officials said the mainland tourist authorities had yet to express an opinion on Taiwan's proposal.
Government officials said yesterday that individual visitors would be limited to stays of up to 15 days. The quota would be in addition to an existing limit of 4,000 mainland tourists per day allowed on group tours.
Opening up to individual tourists is the next stage in boosting economic ties between the two sides, who signed of a landmark trade deal last year.
Mainland tour groups accounted for 1.63 million visitors in 2010, up 68 percent from 2009, and for the first time the number of mainland tourists exceeded those from Japan, for decades Taiwan's biggest source of visitors.
Taiwan's tourism shares sub-index has risen some 30 percent in the last year on hopes of an influx of mainland tourists, and a number of luxury hotels have opened or are under construction to meet demand.
The officials said the mainland tourist authorities had yet to express an opinion on Taiwan's proposal.
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