The Asia-Pacific Institute of Creativity, a private college in Miaoli’s Toufen Township (頭份), is to transform its campus into a tourist camping area at the end of next month.
The recreational area is to offer tourist attractions, such as hot-air balloon rides, a golf course and a golf practice area, tours of the school’s pottery kilns, pizza ovens and tea-industry-related facilities, institute president Liu Shaw-wen (劉紹文) said.
“The institute has planned for years to operate a hybridized education and tourism campus, and entered into a contract with LOHAS Creative Marketing Co that would provide the college with capital and technical know-how to realize this project,” he said.
Photo: Cheng Hung-ta, Taipei Times
The university hopes that its collaboration with the company in campus tourism will lead to better utilization of its assets, Liu added.
The institute is suitable for the project because of its environment and the tourism schools that it manages, LOHAS Creative Marketing co-chief executive officer Lin Kun-ming (林昆明) said, adding that the company believes in the business.
The camping area, which is to have room for about 100 tents, is to have eight zones with themes that change according to seasons, catering to individual, institutional or group clienteles, Lin said.
Lin said the camping area is to have 32 bathing facilities and tents would be available for rent between noon on Saturdays and 5pm on Sundays during the semester at a fee of NT$1,000 per unit, each having a 3m2 sleeping tent and a living room tent of the same size.
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