Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018/04/04
By: Kou Chu-chen and Elizabeth Hsu
Overpriced food and accommodation; crowded, dirty streets; peak season traffic jams; 
overbuilding; and poor service.
This litany of woes besetting Kenting, one of Taiwan’s most popular beach resorts, has been driving tourists away, but only recently have some of the town’s people and stakeholders awoken to the new reality and sought ways to reverse its tarnished reputation.
In July 2017, a group of community volunteers that occasionally organizes charity activities and pays visits to seniors felt it could no longer ignore visitors’ negative comments and began a movement to clean Kenting Road.
Every day, one of the leaders of the Kenting Community Association, Tseng Chun-hui (曾春惠), leads the volunteers in cleaning the road, the main traffic artery serving the town, which is inside a vast national park on Taiwan’s southernmost tip in Pingtung County.
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