taiwan announced that it will pay foreign tourists to visit it. The Asian island reopened its borders in 2022 and, in this way, seeks to recover the record of visitors it reached before the coronavirus pandemic that significantly affected the region. After reopening its doors to international travel only in October 2022, after the coronavirus pandemic, Covid-19, estimates to recover the record of 11 million visitors that it had years ago. To achieve this impressive objective, the national government is evaluating granting up to U$165 in cash to tourists who travel to Taipei.
Through an official announcement, the Prime Minister of Taiwan, Chen Chien-jenreported that his government’s goal is to attract 6 million tourists in 2023, double that in 2024, and reach 10 million visitors by 2025. A figure that would once again strongly boost the economy in the battered tourism sector.
To achieve this goal, they set out to give out NT$5,000 (New Taiwan dollar), about US$165, to an estimated 500,000 individual tourists. The allocations will grow up to NT$20,000 or US$658 to 90,000 in the case of international tourist groups that come to visit the territory of the well-remembered Chinese general. Chang Kai-shek.
There are similar precedents in the region of proposals that encourage international tourism with payments or significant discounts. India and Thailand are some of the countries that carried out the initiative to return travel expenses to tourists who visit 15 places in their own territory throughout 2022.
On the other hand, the Minister of Transport, Wang Kuo-tsai, He added that the figure will be paid digitally and that, with it, tourists will be able to cover their expenses in the country, including accommodation. Despite the brand new news, the Taiwanese government has yet to announce when it will launch the initiative.
The small island nation, located 180 kilometers south of China, received just under 900,000 visitors in 2022. This is a far cry from the more than 11,000,000 it registered in 2019, prior to the massive lockdown. The international situation, which unfolds in the war conflict of the Russian invasion of UkraineIt does not favor the reactivation of tourism either.
The warnings of the People’s Republic of China to the so-called “rebel province”, together with some military incursions into the airspace, deepened the diplomatic conflict and political tensions. A panorama that the US government of Joe Biden has not ceased to observe with deep suspicion in recent months.
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