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Taipei cross-strait travel fair to draw groups from all over China
2010/07/29 22:02:33 |
Taipei, July 29 (CNA) The 2010 Taipei Cross-Strait Travel Fair slated to take place Aug. 13-16 at the Taipei World Trade Center will bring to the capital over 1,000 representatives from all over China, the Taiwan Visitors Association said Thursday.
The participants will be representing 184 tourism associations, travel agencies, tourist attractions, hotels, media outlets and online tourism operators from all 31 municipalities, provinces and autonomous regions around China, the association said.
The cross-strait fair, the first of its kind, is an offshoot of the Taipei International Travel Fair that is normally held in November and is being organized jointly by the Taiwan Visitors Association and the Beijing-based Cross-Strait Tourism Association.
The sponsors will provide a long list of benefits and incentives for fair visitors, including ticket give-aways for five-day trips to the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, free five-day trips to Jiangsu Province and free tickets for stays at five-star hotels in China, according to the Taiwan Visitors Association.
The association itself will also institute a "dream-come-true" area at the fair, where visitors can take part in daily draws for free trips to locations in Taiwan and China they most want to see. A total of 56 winners will be produced every day during the fair's four-day run, association officials said.
The Beijing-based Cross-Strait Tourism Association (CSTA) opened an office in Taipei in early May this year -- the first office of any kind established by China in Taiwan -- representing a new milestone in tourism exchanges across the Taiwan Strait.
The CSTA's Taiwanese counterpart -- the Taiwan Strait Tourism Association (TSTA) -- also opened a representative office in Beijing in early May to promote travel in Taiwan to potential Chinese tourists.
While officiating over the CSTA office's opening in Taipei, Shao Qiwei, the director of China's National Tourism Administration who concurrently serves as CSTA president, guaranteed that the number of Chinese tourist arrivals will break the 1 million mark this year.
He said China will soon allow residents of Inner Mongolia, Tibet, as well as the provinces of Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia and Xinjiang, to make sightseeing trips to Taiwan, which means that tourists from the whole of China will be allowed to visit.
Chinese nationals have made more than 1.07 million visits to Taiwan since the two sides formally signed an agreement on tourism exchanges in July 2008. The number of Chinese arrivals reached over 416,000 in the first four months this year, 95 percent higher than during the same period of last year.
Under the agreement signed between the two quasi-official intermediary bodies -- Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation and China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits -- Taiwan allows entry of up to 3,000 Chinese tourists per day, although the number of daily arrivals has already averaged 3,219 this year.
Shao said that if the total number of arrivals breaks the 1 million mark this year, the two sides will discuss an increase in the daily quota. (By Wang Shu-fen and Deborah Kuo) ENDITEM/J
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