Mainland China tourists to Taiwan expected to reach 600,000

The Chinese mainland and Taiwan expected cross-Strait tourism to attract at least 600,000 mainland tourists this year, Monday’s China Daily reported. The ambitious target comes one year after the island was opened up to mainland tourists. About 383,300 mainland tourists visited the island in the past year, according to the Cross-Straits Tourism Association (CSTA) in [...]

HongKong, Macao and Taiwan stays attractive for travelers

Outbound travel to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao remains popular with mainland travelers during the upcoming Spring Festival holiday season, an online survey has showed. About 11 percent of people polled in an online survey released by market research firm Nielsen during the weekend picked overseas travel destinations over domestic ones for the coming vacation, [...]

Taiwan’s China tourism boom stumbles amid financial turmoil

Taiwan welcomed the first Chinese visitors arriving on direct flights three months ago as a boon for tourism, but global financial troubles and local political uncertainty might deflate such hopes. Taiwan has severely limited trade and travel with China since the two sides split at the end of a civil war in 1949, but change [...]

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