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    No gambling, 'pornography' for Chinese tourists


    AP, BEIJING
    Monday, Jun 23, 2008, Page 1

    Chinese visitors to Taiwan will not be allowed to gamble or engage in "pornographic activities," China's state news agency reported yesterday.

    The warning was issued by the Cross-Strait Tourism Association, Xinhua news agency said. It followed the signing of breakthrough agreements on charter flights and tourism promotion between the two sides earlier this month.

    “Travel agencies are not allowed to arrange gambling, pornographic and drug-related activities and other activities harming cross-strait relations,” Xinhua said.

    It did not explain what it meant by “pornographic activities.”

    Chinese travel agency managers have arrived in Taiwan on a fact-finding mission to inspect tourism infrastructure, such as hotels and transportation. They were to visit Sun Moon Lake yesterday, the Central News Agency reported.

    The officials are visiting Taiwan for 10 days, the maximum allowed under the agreement that permits 3,000 Chinese tourists a day to visit Taiwan.

    Taiwanese hoteliers, airlines and tour operators hope big-spending Chinese tourists will prove a shot in the arm to Taiwan’s travel sector, although limited capacity and continuing political differences between the two sides dictate limits on numbers and itineraries.
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