Tourism in Taiwan Area

  • Tourism activity featuring railway stations Taiwan and Japan

    JAPAN, 2014/03/11 A tourism activity featuring railway stations that share the same names in both Taiwan and Japan was held in Tokyo Monday. Taiwan's Tourism Bureau, the Taiwan Railways Government and the Taiwan Visitors Association were part the sponsors of the event aimed at promoting tourism exchanges between the two nations. A total of 32 railway stations, inclunding Songshan and Banqiao, can be found in both nations. The Tourism Bureau as well invited Hideki Togi, a famous gagaku (ancient Japanese court music) performer, composer, author and actor to serve as a tourism goodwill ambassador for Taiwan.
  • This is a good way to promote tourism from Taiwan to Israel.

    ISRAEL, 2014/02/13 The Taipei city government in Taiwan has donated two traditional dragon boats to the Israeli city of Haifa, in an effort to promote cultural and sports exchanges between the two cities, it said Wednesday. The donation of the dragon boats came next a team from Haifa traveled to Taiwan last June to participate in the annual Taipei International Dragon Boat Championship. The boats arrived in Haifa, a port city in northern Israel, in late January, said the Israel Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei. Israel's representative to Taiwan, Simona Halperin, as well called on Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin that day to express gratitude for the donation of the two boats.
  • Chinese mainland traveled to Taiwan in December

    CHINA, 2014/02/03 Over 62,000 individual tourists (without contracts to travel agencies) from the Chinese mainland traveled to Taiwan in December, registering a new high, the local tourism bureau announced on Saturday. A total of 2.85 million mainland tourists visited Taiwan during 2013, a year-on-year increase of 10 %. Part them, 522,000 traveled as individual tourists, up 174 % compared to the year before. Taiwan initial opened the door to individual tourists from mainland cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen in 2011 and granted permission to ten additional mainland cities in 2012.
  • 2.5 million Chinese visitors came to Taiwan in 2012

    TAIWAN AREA, 2013/10/24 With Cross-Strait relations having improved remarkably, senior government officials of the Republic of China, Taiwan, have disclosed that at least 2.5 million tourists from Mainland China visited the Asian island country in 2012 alone; a development they described as impressive in the relations between the two sides. Speaking recently during a conference with a 52-member high-level international delegation of media professionals drawn from across the globe, who were invited to take part in the ROC’s 102nd national day celebrations, the officials said the increment was as a result of the new positive approach adopted by the two sides towards the issue of Cross-Strait. “Five years ago before President Ma was initial elected as president, by that time relations on the Taiwan Strait were by presently very tough,” said Taiwan’s deputy minister of Mainland Affairs Council, Chu-Chia Lin.
  • Tourism service operators in southern Taiwan,

    CHINA, 2013/10/08 Tourism service operators in southern Taiwan, particularly those focusing on hosting Chinese tour groups, are facing a "dark period" for their business, as China implemented a stricter travel law Oct. 1, according to industry sources. Frank Lin, convener of the South Taiwan Travel Industry Alliance, who operates the Kingship Hotel in the southern port city of Kaohsiung, said the occupancy rate at his hotel still managed to reach an average of 120 to 130 rooms a day during the initial six days of October because Chinese tour groups had made reservations long before the launch of the new law. "The occupancy rate has plunged to 20 rooms today and the number will drop to a single-digit figure starting tomorrow," Lin was quoted as saying in the Monday edition of the United Daily News.
  • Furong Hotel,Danshui river in Taipei,Taiwan,China

    TAIWAN AREA, 2013/09/09 Muslims are welcome in Taiwan, and the Taiwan Tourism Bureau is focusing on encouraging additional Muslims to visit Taiwan at the ongoing WITM-MATTA equitable 2013 at the Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur. Taiwan Tourism Bureau Kuala Lumpur Office director David Tsao said they published Melancong ke Taiwan untuk Muslim (Travel to Taiwan for Muslims) guide in March this year. “We want to show them that we are prepared to welcome them to our country,” he said at the same time as met at the pre-show Taiwan Tourism Promotion Conference for the tourism industry and media in Kuala Lumpur, recently.