This year’s Taipei Cross-Strait Travel Fair, slated to take place Aug. 13 to Aug. 16 at the Taipei World Trade Center, will bring over 1,000 representatives from all parts of China, the Taiwan Visitors Association said.
The participants will represent 184 tourism associations, travel agencies, tourist attractions, hotels, media outlets and online tourism operators from all of China’s 31 municipalities, provinces and autonomous regions, the association said.
The cross-strait fair, the first of its kind, is an offshoot of the Taipei International Travel Fair that is normally held in November, and is jointly organized by the Taiwan Visitors Association and the Beijing-based Cross-Strait Tourism Association.
The sponsors will provide a long list of benefits and incentives for fair visitors, including ticket give-aways for five-day trips to the Shanghai World Expo, free five-day trips to China’s Jiangsu Province and free tickets for stays at five-star hotels in China, the Taiwan Visitors Association said.
The Beijing-based Cross-Strait Tourism Association (CSTA) opened an office in Taipei in early May this year — the first office of any kind established by China in Taiwan. The CSTA’s Taiwanese counterpart — the Taiwan Strait Tourism Association — also opened a representative office in Beijing in early May to promote travel to Taiwan.
While presiding over the CSTA office’s opening in Taipei, director of China’s National Tourism Administration Shao Qiwei (邵琪偉), who concurrently serves as CSTA president, guaranteed that the number of Chinese tourists will exceed 1 million this year.
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