Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/08/26
By: Lee Hsin-Yin
Taipei, Aug. 26 (CNA) The Ministry of Communications and Transportation (MOTC) said Friday it
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remained optimistic that Taiwan will attract more than 10 million overseas visitors this year despite a recent decline in visits from Chinese nationals.
The ministry did not say if it expected overseas arrival numbers this year to surpass the 10,439,785 foreign nationals who visited Taiwan last year, but it indicated that there should not be much of a fall-off.
The number of foreign visitors to Taiwan was up 7.93 percent year-on-year in the first seven months of the year, the ministry said, with the performance of some major inbound tourism markets remaining robust.
Although Chinese visitor arrivals registered only 0.41 percent growth in the January to July period, visitors from South Korea and Japan were up 29.01 percent and 17.46 percent, respectively, from the same period a year earlier, the ministry said. [FULL STORY]
