After the government allowed group tourists from Hong Kong and Macau to travel to Taiwan on November 7, Hong Kong tourists have already appeared on the Taipei MRT.

(File photo, photo by reporter Chen Yufu)

[Reporter Chen Xinyu/Taipei Report] The "Jinma District People's Spring Festival Traffic Project" will be implemented two weeks before and after the Lunar New Year next year, that is, from January 7 to February 6. However, the transfer of Taiwanese businessmen has not yet been opened. The opening up of Chinese people to travel in groups to China, Hong Kong and Macao people visiting Taiwan is also limited to group tours, and the travel industry is also eagerly looking forward to loosening.

Xiao Boren, chairman of the National Federation of Travel Business Associations of the Republic of China, said that the project is still of little significance to Taiwan's tourism industry and residents of the island. Before the epidemic, Hong Kong and Macao people visited Taiwan about 1.75 million times a year, second only to China and Japan. Tourists, we hope that people from Hong Kong and Macau will be allowed to travel freely to Taiwan for sightseeing as soon as possible.

Xiao Boren said that he "affirmed" the government's first step to resume exchanges with China, but he didn't know how long this project would last. Although the policy of restricting the number of Chinese group tourists before the epidemic was declining, at least Hong Kong and Macau tourists Before the epidemic, it was very important to Taiwan and made great contributions to Taiwan's economy. The tourism industry is looking forward to it.

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Xiao Boren said that although the government has allowed Hong Kong and Macau group tourists to travel to Taiwan on November 7, before the epidemic, Hong Kong and Macau tourists were more accustomed to independent travel and would revisit many times.

Li Qiyue, chairman of Innovation Travel Agency, believes that the next step is to let business travelers from both sides of the Taiwan Strait go first. Japan ranks second, and Hong Kong and Macau rank third. Even though cross-strait relations are not good, before the epidemic, China still ranked first in the number of people entering Taiwan and the second destination for Taiwanese outbound. Considering the epidemic prevention, we can not fully open up tourists to come in, but I hope next time One step ahead in economics and trade.

Li Qiyue believes that China is still Taiwan's largest trading partner, so cross-strait business exchanges will be more important after China may announce "0+3" from January 3 next year. Three-way (charter) sightseeing.