Profile picture: Fuzhou Hong Kong visitors to go to boarding Taiwan tourism. Xinhua News Agency reporters Zhang Guo and Jun She
Profile picture: tourists in Fuzhou Port Ferry Terminal waiting room waiting to board the vessel to go to Taiwan tourism.
Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait and Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation, 21, an exchange of letters, to confirm the pilot mainland residents to visit Taiwan, personal travel, increased cross-strait direct air passenger and cargo flights and destinations and other specific arrangements. This means that the compatriots on both sides look forward to many years of dreams come true, a week after the 28 individual mainland residents to visit the first group will depart smoothly.
The two sides had individual mainland residents to travel conducted several consultations, held on June 12 this year, the Third Conference on the Straits forum finally came good news. China National Tourism Administration Shao Qiwei said its mainland residents to tour the first person to pilot cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen, Fujian Province, will be officially launched on June 28. Meanwhile, both sides agreed to open Fujian residents to visit Kinmen, Matsu, Penghu personal travel, the specific implementation arrangements agreed upon again as soon as possible.
In July 2008, mainland residents to visit Taiwan, tourist since Taiwan became the most popular residents of one of the outbound. IVS open, will the boom even more heat. Currently, access to undertake the qualification of the Beijing-Shanghai Xiamen region 33 travel agencies, launched the first group of competing lines. Newspapers, Internet and travel sections, the "line up to Taiwan "," Taiwan's first free exercise bloom "and other ads, prominently layout; by phone, Internet and other means of personal travel consulting products to Taiwan the number of visitors almost" overwhelmed " , the first group it is difficult to get a ticket.
Ctrip Travel Network in May, the intention survey conducted two weeks of nearly 3000 visitors expressed a personal visit to Taiwan will. In CYTS the free exercise of Variety, director Zhang introduced in CYTS travel website network began in May launched the "On-line queue to Taiwan "campaign, there are nearly 6000 people online Arranging.
Profile picture: the first thousand mainland tour group to Taiwan via Xiamen - mini three links route to Taiwan to Kinmen tourism, tourists are preparing clearance.
Mainland residents to tour the team opened the past three years, as Taiwan's tourism industry into the stream of flowing water. As of May 31 this year, mainland residents to travel a total of over 2.34 million people, Taiwan in related industries is estimated to have brought benefits to the island more than 1100 billion (NT $, the same below). The island community expectations, the relative "tour groups" level of consumption higher individual visitors, tourist routes wider, will further expand Taiwan 's positive economic effects.
Taiwan cities and counties, the industry is now gearing up to start "to meet the visitors a Story." TSTA Beijing office director Yang Ruizong said, Taiwan's travel industry for individual visitors to mainland China launched a 18 cities and small towns tourist routes, divided into northern, central, south, east four major areas. Such as careful planning of Taipei City "faith Modern Star Fun" "Monga mood nostalgia fun" "Fun Kangqing Long Street, slow living," "Divertimento Beitou Zhongshan Fun" 4 line, along the famous Taipei 100 merchants offer different levels of discount concessions. Tainan, Tainan also introduced the history of nostalgia, history, walking, etc. Anping Street 3 routes.
Even the "Visitors" to Taiwan must visit Sun Moon Lake, but also to create a "non-general" sense of personal travel. Nantou County Tourist Office Deputy Director Wang source Zhongjie Shao said that the current and the surrounding area has more than 300 hotels, B & B agreed to launch tickets, tickets, accommodation and "all-inclusive package" of benefits packages, to facilitate mainland tourists choose to buy personal travel.
21 two sides increased exchange of letters to confirm air flight destinations and other specific arrangements will enable the two sides passenger flights per week to total 558 classes, the overall increase to 50 destinations. The industry believes that the New Deal, though not entirely for personal travel package, but will make individual visits more convenient for tourists traveling to Taiwan, the choices are more diverse.
"Pilot mainland residents to travel to individual cross-strait tourism exchange and to a new phase, will open up new channels for exchanges between people on both sides and write a new movement of cross-strait peace and development." Shao said at the Third Forum on the Straits.
June 28, the first batch of mainland tourists will leave for personal travel. Currently able to make the trip, and only have three cities Beijing and Shanghai Xiamen residence and in accordance with the Taiwan side to participate in travel status, and ask for the staff, described the limited scope of specific populations. Observers here noted that only the cross-strait tourism authorities, tourism industry are mainland residents to travel and participate in joint efforts, the good run in order to shorten the "pilot phase" to make individual visits to Taiwan's participation in regional, sequential expansion of the crowd opened to allow more mainland residents to Taiwan early Fetrip really enlarge the positive effects of the Individual Visit Scheme. Source: Xinhua
