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Taiwan to allow more Chinese tourists each day

Taiwan Bumps Up Number Of Daily Chinese Tourists to 4000

Taiwan to allow more Chinese tourists each day

Taipei - Beginning on January 1, 2011, the number of Chinese tourists allowed to enter Taiwan each day will increase by 1,000 to 4,000, according to an agreement reached between the two sides ...

Taiwan launches 2011 tourism campaign

Tour Taiwan 100 Campaign

Taiwan launches 2011 tourism campaign

The Taiwan Tourism Bureau has announced its 2011 marketing campaign, which will feature three key elements: Tour Taiwan 100, Authentic Taiwan and Great Service in Taiwan.

Taiwan welcomes 5,000,000th tourist

Taiwanese Tourism

Taiwan welcomes 5,000,000th tourist

This year's five millionth tourist to Taiwan arrived this weekend and was greeted with a NT$500,000 (roughly US$17,000) cash prize.

Taiwan expects 5.4 Million visitors in 2010

Taiwanese Tourism

Taiwan expects 5.4 Million visitors in 2010

According to the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, the number of tourists visiting Taiwan is expected to reach a record 5.4 million this year, which represents ...

Taiwan to convert Kinmen military sites into tourist attractions

Kinmen to become more visitor-friendly

Taiwan to convert Kinmen military sites into tourist attractions

Taiwan - Military officials in Kinmen County agreed yesterday to hand over two vacant military sites to civilian authorities that the county’s leader hopes to convert into popular tourist ...

Taipei International Travel Fair

Biggest Asian tourism fair starts in Taipei next month

Taipei, Taiwan - The Taipei International Travel Fair, set to kick off next month, will feature over 1,200 booths from 60 countries, making it Taiwan's most anticipated tourism event of the year, ...

Tour bus driver confirmed dead, Chinese tourists still missing

Chinese tourists still missing in Taiwan

Tour bus driver confirmed dead, Chinese tourists still missing

TAIPEI - A Taiwan driver, Tsai Chih-ming, missing since Oct.

China becomes largest provider of tourists to Taiwan

Taiwan Tourism Bureau Survey

China becomes largest provider of tourists to Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- China has become the largest provider of tourists to Taiwan, according to the latest survey released by the Tourism Bureau under the Ministry of Transportation and ...

19 Chinese tourists remain unaccounted for in Taiwan

19 tourists missing

19 Chinese tourists remain unaccounted for in Taiwan

Taipei - Family members of 19 Chinese tourists from China's Guangdong Province who remained unaccounted for Sunday are expected to arrive in Taiwan Tuesday and Wednesday, according to a travel ...

Taiwanese Flag Carrier Joins SkyTeam

Aviation news: China Airlines joins SkyTeam global airline alliance

TAIPEI - China Airlines, the flag carrier of Taiwan, signed a letter of intent Tuesday to join the SkyTeam global airline alliance. The process is expected to be completed by mid-2011.

Chiang Kai-shek's lookalike stuns Chinese tourists in Taipei

Taiwan's latest tourist attraction

Chiang Kai-shek's lookalike stuns Chinese tourists in Taipei

By Christine Lu, Ben Tai and Ralph Jennings

A double of Taiwan's one-time military strongman and ruler Chiang Kai-shek is drawing enthusiastic tourists from China, the very land that he swore to conquer while ruling the island ...

Cats give decayed Taiwanese village a second life

Cats become Houtong's tourist attraction

Cats give decayed Taiwanese village a second life

By DEBBY WU

HOUTONG, Taiwan — A surfeit of cats is giving a second life to a decayed Taiwanese coal-mining town that last prospered in the 1970s.

First Chinese medical tourism group to visit Taiwan in September

China-Taiwan Medical Tourism

First Chinese medical tourism group to visit Taiwan in September

By Kuo Mei-lan and Y.L. Kao

Taipei, Taiwan - About 20 tourists from eastern China's Jiangsu Province will visit Taiwan Sept.

Hong Kong's tourism blunders a bonus for Taiwan

Chinese Tourism To Hong Kong and Taiwan

Hong Kong's tourism blunders a bonus for Taiwan

It's the sort of publicity any city could best do well without.

Massive influx of Chinese tourists exposes Taiwan's catering shortfalls

Chinese tourism to Taiwan

Massive influx of Chinese tourists exposes Taiwan's catering shortfalls

Taipei - The arrival of Chinese tourists in ever-increasing droves has highlighted Taiwan's lack of large venues for staging large group activities, a local travel agency executive said ...

Taiwan welcomes Chinese tourism boom but not so much Chinese tourists

Chinese Tourism To Taiwan

Taiwan welcomes Chinese tourism boom but not so much Chinese tourists

By Jonathan Adams,

The tour guide stood in Taiwan's National Palace Museum lobby, waving a tattered green pennant.

Ban on individual Chinese tourists visiting Taiwan to be lifted

Chinese Tourism To Taiwan

Ban on individual Chinese tourists visiting Taiwan to be lifted

TAIPEI — Taiwan is likely to lift a ban on visits by individual Chinese tourists, Premier Wu Den-yih said Wednesday in yet another sign of Taipei's fast-warming ties with Beijing.

1 million Chinese tourists expected to visit Taiwan in 2010

Chinese Tourism To Taiwan

1 million Chinese tourists expected to visit Taiwan in 2010

Taipei - Taiwan expects to receive 1 million Chinese tourists in 2010 as the number of tour groups from the mainland grows, a newspaper said Monday.

Kaohsiung City plans to attract more tourists with cruise ship hub

Taiwan's Kaohsiung City wants more cruise tourists

Kaohsiung City plans to attract more tourists with cruise ship hub

Kaohsiung - Southern Taiwan's Kaohsiung City plans to build itself into a hub for cruise liners to attract more tourists to the city, officials said Tuesday.

Latest news from the Taiwan Tourism Bureau

Hotels, Restaurants, Transportation

Latest news from the Taiwan Tourism Bureau

Taiwan plans 37 new hotel developments

Chinese tourism official is really in his element living in Taipei

Cross-Strait Tourism

Chinese tourism official is really in his element living in Taipei

Taipei - China's tourism representative in Taiwan says he is really in his element living in Taipei, which he has called home for nine months.

First Taiwanese tourism office opens in Beijing

Cross-Strait Tourism

First Taiwanese tourism office opens in Beijing

By TINI TRAN

BEIJING – Taiwan opened a tourism office Tuesday in Beijing that represents the island's first official presence in China's capital since the two sides split amid civil war in 1949.

China Airlines to increase capacity on new cross-strait flights

China-Taiwan Flights

China Airlines to increase capacity on new cross-strait flights

Taiwanese national carrier, China Airlines and its subsidiary, Mandarin Airlines, have announced plans to fly a larger aircraft between Taipei and mainland China.

Chinese may surpass Japanese as Taiwan's top visitors

Taiwan Tourism

Chinese may surpass Japanese as Taiwan's top visitors

By Chinmei Sung

Chinese visitors to Taiwan may surpass Japanese for the first time on record as relaxed rules spur travel to an island off limits to mainlanders for 60 years.

China and Taiwan to exchange tourist offices in May

Taiwan Strait Tourism

China and Taiwan to exchange tourist offices in May

TAIPEI - China and Taiwan are to open tourist offices on each other's territory for the first time in 60 years amid fast warming relations between the two former bitter rivals, officials said on ...

China may permit individual tourists travel toTaiwan

Cross-Strait Travel

China may permit individual tourists travel toTaiwan

By Eugene Tang

China may allow individual tourists to visit Taiwan, according to a Chinese government spokesman, in a move to further open the flow of exchanges across the Taiwan Strait.

Japan and Taiwan target 3 million tourist exchanges

Taiwan-Japan Tourism Exchange Year

Japan and Taiwan target 3 million tourist exchanges

Taipei - Taiwan and Japan have set a target of 3 million visits by tourists between the two countries for this year, which has been designated as the Taiwan-Japan Tourism Exchange Year, Minister ...

Powerful earthquake rocks southern Taiwan

Taiwan Hit By Earthquake

Powerful earthquake rocks southern Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan – A powerful 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked southern Taiwan on Thursday, causing widespread damage and disrupting communications around the island.

Taiwan's tourism rides high on Lunar New Year

Taiwanese Tourism Boom

Taiwan's tourism rides high on Lunar New Year

By Jason Tan

Thirty-one-year-old sales executive Jenny Liu is flying to Bangkok during the Lunar New Year holiday along with five other family members.

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