The average booking rate for the two days before the New Year's Day holiday is only 16% in Lianjiang County, which is lower than last year.

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[Reporter Chen Xinyu/Taipei Report] On Saturday New Year’s Eve, the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Communications statistics show an average reservation rate of 67% for New Year’s Eve and 58% for the two days before the New Year’s Day holiday. This is slightly higher than last year's 52%.

The hotel industry believes that people are going abroad for the New Year's Eve, but the international tourists have not yet fully returned. China National Tourism Administration has not seen a "retaliatory tourism wave" and has not returned to the pre-epidemic level.

For New Year’s Eve, the highest reservation rate in Taiwan is 89% in Chiayi County, 85% in Tainan City, and 82% in Taichung City; while the average reservation rate for the two days before the New Year’s Day holiday is 80% in Miaoli County, 77% in Chiayi County and 76% in Tainan City.

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Jian Yingyi, deputy director of the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Communications, said that this year's New Year's Eve reservation rate is better than last year. The highest average reservation rate in the first two days is the same as last year in Miaoli County, because there are not many hotel rooms.

The second place is Chiayi City's New Year's Eve event, which has a strong cast, and people will want to go to Alishan to welcome the dawn, attracting tourists to visit.

This year’s Shuangbei reservation rate is much higher than last year’s. According to analysis, last year’s New Year’s Eve events in various places still had restrictions on the flow of people. This year, as the epidemic slowed down, the flow of people returned.

Zhuo Qianhui, secretary-general of the Tourist Hotel Business Association of the Republic of China, analyzed that the reservation rate for New Year’s Day this year is not as good as expected. Many large hotels are afraid that they will not be able to arrange the rooms, so they dare not fully open, which will make it difficult for the reservation rate to improve.

As for the average room booking rate in the two days before the New Year’s Day holiday, Penghu County on the outer island was 4% and Lianjiang County was 16% lower than last year. Jian Yingyi explained that the reason for the higher room booking rate on the outer island last year was that the border was not unblocked, and people turned to Go to outlying islands for a continuous vacation.

Hong Chongyuan, chairman of the National Federation of Hotel Business Associations of the Republic of China, said that the New Year’s Eve reservations have always been good. This year’s New Year’s Eve and the fact that it falls on a Saturday, tourists and returnees are all returning to the south. It is also estimated that tourists will rush to Alishan Watch the dawn.

Hualien County Hotel Association Chairman Zhang Yuhan said that this year’s New Year’s Eve reservation rate is about 90%, which is slightly higher than the tourism bureau’s self-reported statistics. If you visit Hualien, there will still be vacant rooms to live in.

Gao Quanjie, chairman of the Taitung County Hotel Association, pointed out that the reservation rate this year is not as good as last year. The main reason is that after the September 18th earthquake, the train from Hualien to Taitung was interrupted. Can increase the booking rate.