Dapeng Bay National Scenic Area will hold the 2023 Dapeng Bay Sailing Life Festival from April 1st, and today (22nd) is the event press conference.

From left to right are Chen Bairui, chairman of the Taiwan Yachting and Sailing Association, Xu Zhulong, director of the Dapeng Bay National Scenic Area Management Office of the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Communications, and Liu Zhihong, deputy director of the Harbor Bureau of the Ministry of Communications.

(Photo by reporter Chen Xinyu)

[Reporter Chen Xinyu/Taipei Report] Mipeng Bay National Scenic Area has the advantages of lagoon environment and water sports are popular. The 2023 Mipeng Bay Sailing Life Festival will be held from April 1. The event will last for one month. The most eye-catching ocean leisure resort park in southern Taiwan.

The Dapeng Bay National Scenic Area Management Office stated that the event time this year has been extended from 10 days to one month, and plans to vote for a national yacht tour online. Free parent-child play facilities, creative performance art, Pingtung sightseeing circle market and small trips, allowing tourists to play from sunrise to sunset.

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Liu Zhihong, deputy director of the Harbor Bureau of the Ministry of Communications, pointed out that the number of yacht drivers in Taiwan has exceeded 25,000, which is more than ten times that of 2,049 people 10 years ago. This shows that yachting activities are popular. Bay experience yacht self-driving, general tourists arrange yacht guides and boarding experience, and for the first time launched an online voting yacht tour competition, in order to combine yacht and surrounding sightseeing spots tour itinerary, marketing yacht and tourism industry.

For event information, please visit the website of Mirs Bay Sailing Life Festival.

The Port Bureau of the Ministry of Communications and the Dapeng Bay National Scenic Area Management Office of the Tourism Bureau also jointly presented awards to the four winners of the "Yacht Tour Competition" today, including the "Fangxing Yacht Discovery Tour" of Fangxing Yachts, which won the best itinerary award and Online Voting Popularity Award, Charles Schwab Yachting Life Island Hopping Tour won the Best Itinerary Creative Award, and the Royal Yacht Club’s “Dapeng Bay Xiaoliuqiu Sailing Tour” won the Best Itinerary Special Award, combining yachting and sightseeing .