The first incentive tour group after the opening of Taiwan's borders won the first prize for "Hiraiwa Construction Co., Ltd.", a construction company in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. It took 110 employees to travel to Taiwan from recent days to early December, and visited the Forbidden City and other attractions.

(Provided by the Tourism Bureau)

[Reporter Chen Xinyu/Taipei Report] Before the epidemic (2019), Japanese tourists set a new record for coming to Taiwan, reaching 2.17 million per year, and the first incentive tour group after the opening of Taiwan's borders was also led by Japan, for a construction company in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Pingyan Construction Co., Ltd. brought 110 employees to Taiwan for tourism from November to early December. They visited Shilin Night Market, the Forbidden City and other attractions, and tasted steamed buns, Taiwanese cuisine, and Taiwanese beer.

The Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Communications stated that the post-epidemic incentive tour group came to Taiwan for the Yomiuri Travel Agency to arrange for members of "Hiiwa Construction" to come to Taiwan. Hiiwa Construction is located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. It has been established for 70 years. ) also visited the Tourism Bureau in the afternoon, and was received by Deputy Director Lin Xinxin, and prepared special souvenirs for the Greater Alishan Tourist Circle, and invited Ping Yanminhe to come to Taiwan again to experience the forest train, taste the tea garden scenery and the Tsou people's culture.

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The Tourism Bureau stated that in order to welcome the first post-epidemic incentive tour group, pineapple cakes, a must-buy souvenir from Taiwan, were presented. According to members of Pingyan Construction, visiting Shilin Night Market, the Forbidden City and other places can feel the enthusiasm and vitality of Taiwanese people, and taste small Steamed buns, Taiwanese cuisine, and Taiwanese beer.

According to the Tourism Bureau, Pingyan Construction used to choose domestic tourism in Japan. After several struggles, it decided to choose Taiwan as its first overseas travel destination in January this year. In order to fight for it, the company will travel to Taiwan in 4 shifts with 110 people from November 11th to December 2nd.

Zhang Xicong, director of the Tourism Bureau, said that after the epidemic, tourism will achieve the goal of sustainable tourism through the "three arrows of new normal tourism" of new services, new products, and new strategies, and increase efforts to promote overseas incentive tourism, hoping to win large-scale incentive tourism in various tourist source markets Groups come to Taiwan.

The Tourism Bureau stated that in addition to striving for incentive travel, recently the head of Hankyu Travel Agency, one of the top five Japanese tourist destinations in Taiwan, personally led the sales staff from various places in the agency, accompanied by the Tokyo office, to visit the venue of the 2023 Taiwan Lantern Festival, the Taiwan Railway Museum, Taipei New attractions such as the Pop Music Center are stepping on the line to conduct packaging inspections for Taiwan products next year. Taiwan has been the first choice for overseas study trips by Japanese universities for six consecutive years. Therefore, it has cooperated with "JTB Travel Agency". In mid-December, 20 travel agencies will be invited to Japan Personnel responsible for study trips from all over the world come to Taiwan to experience Taiwan's safe and safe reception environment for study trips, and strive for large groups of study trips to come to Taiwan.

Post-epidemic Incentive Travel Taiwan came to launch a tour group for the Yomiuri Travel Agency to arrange "Pingyan Construction" employees to travel to Taiwan and won the first place. The picture shows a group photo of employees in Jiufen.

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Post-epidemic incentive tour Taiwan came to the first tour group to arrange "Pingyan Construction" members to travel to Taiwan for the Yomiuri Travel Office and took the lead. The picture shows Hiraiwa Construction Co., Ltd. President Toshikazu Hiraiwa (left) meeting with the Deputy Director of the Tourism Bureau this afternoon (22nd) I'm trusting.

(Provided by the Tourism Bureau)