A foreign airline is to serve Taitung County for the first time next month when the first of a series of round-trip charter flights connecting southeastern Taiwan and Hanoi, arrives in Taitung on Aug. 30, the county said on Saturday.
The charter flights, which have been arranged by the county government and a local travel agency, would be flown by budget carrier VietJet Air and bring 230 visitors from Vietnam to the county and would return to Hanoi the same day with travelers from Taiwan.
Five days later, the Vietnamese carrier would bring the Taiwanese tourists back to Taiwan and then transport the Vietnamese visitors home, county officials said.
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The county initially planned to only arrange one group of flights, but later added two more groups of flights in late October because the seats on the first flights were fully booked in less than a month.
Meanwhile, the county said it would continue to establish direct air links between it and East and Southeast Asian countries to boost local tourism.
Taiwan has set a goal of 10 million foreign visitors this year, and has seen 2.6 million foreign visitors in the first four months of this year, the Tourism Administration said.
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