Source: Yiwu sourcing agent Author: Yama Date: 2008-11-18
Yiwu meeting the first batch of Taiwan tourism mission
To achieve cross-strait "three links", it is generally concerned about the travel to Taiwan, the island's visitors, they are also concerned about the "mainland tour." On November 14, 24 directors, supervisors of the Kaohsiung Association of Travel , led by the chairman Lin Shangzhi, visited our city shopping tourism, warm-up further tourisim for Taiwan residents.
ARATS and the Straits Exchange Foundation in Taipei signned 4 agreements on the 4th such as cross-strait air and shipping, postal services, and so on which marks the cross-strait "three links" become a reality. Based on 5 original charter destinations, they add new 16 passenger charter flights, including Hangzhou. The route bends of the cut-off means that greatly shorten the flight distance between Zhejiang and Taiwan in the future, and also the tourism fee dropped significantly, which not only make Yiwu peoples' dream of setting foot on the tourist of island closer, and also see a new tourism market Business opportunities.
At the recent seminar on tourism shopping in Yiwu, in order to attract more Taiwan tourists to Yiwu in the second half of tourism, a group of carefully planned package of Yiwu shopping tour re-introduced. According to the tourist city of Authority Chen, the Taiwan market has been the city's major tourist shopping source, they showed great interest in Yiwu markets' cheap shopping . Taiwan market this year, also is listed as one of the major markets, in the cooperation between our city and the surrounding cities and counties ,they devoted to the launch of the "Hangzhou - Shaoxing - Yiwu," "Hangzhou - Lake - Yiwu - Hengdian" line which is believed to be welcomed by Taiwan tourists.
Lin Shangzhi said that in the past two years he has been to Yiwu for 7 years, International Trade City has become a tourist resource and attracting tourists. Now, not only in Kaohsiung, Taipei's tourism industry colleagues are shopping are promoting tourism in yiwu, many small commodities of Taiwan are from Yiwu market. So far this year, there has been 80 millionTaiwan residents came Zhejiang to travel, visit relatives,which is the highest level in history, many of them came to Yiwu. In the future, as the two sides realized the three direct links ,more and more tourists will participate in Yiwu shopping tourism.
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