Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/12/30
By: Liu Lee-jung and Kuan-lin Liu
Taipei, Dec. 30 (CNA) The number of people traveling to and from Taiwan in the first 11
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months of 2017 was up slightly from last year, helped by a sizable increase in visitors from Southeast Asia, Ministry of the Interior figures released Saturday showed.
According to the ministry’s statistics, there were a total of 48.17 million travelers who departed from and arrived in Taiwan from Jan. 1 to Nov. 30 this year, up 4.1 percent from the same period of 2016.
Just over three-quarters of those travelers (75.35 percent) entered or exited Taiwan through Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, ministry figures showed.
Of the 24.08 million people who entered Taiwan, 9.62 million were foreign nationals, of which 25.81 percent were from China, 17.78 percent were from Japan and 15.74 percent were from Hong Kong and Macao. [FULL STORY]