Taipei,Oct.1,2012(CENS)--Some 1.324 million Chinese tourists came to Taiwan in the first eight months,already exceeding the aggregate of 2011,according to L.C.Fan,the spokesman of Taiwan Affairs Office recently.
With the Oct.1 National Day holiday in China typically driving tourism to a peak,the number of Chinese tourists on domestic and oversea trips are predicted to hit 362 million during the extended break,sharply rising 20%year on year(YoY),generating tourism revenues in China of renminbi(RMB)180 billion or about NT$900 billion(US$30 billion),according to statistics from the China Tourism Agency.
China's government at the start of August approved another 52 travel a gencies to handle Taiwan-bound tourism,bringing the total to 216,with most of the added 52 being private firms from inland provinces as Inner Mongol, Xinjiang, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Jilin, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan.Driven by Chinese curiosity towards exotic island culture and reportedly high spending power,these travel agencies are likely to create ample business for Taiwan's tourism industry.
Meeting a rising need,both representatives from the Taiwan Strait Tourism Association and mainland Chinese Association for Tourism Exchange across the Taiwan Strait inked a memo of corporative guidelines for cross-strait tourism safety at their fourth meeting.
