The Kaohsiung City Government yesterday unveiled NT$50 coupons in a bid to stimulate the city’s tourism economy ahead of this month’s live concerts.
The coupons are redeemable at restaurants, department stores and night market stands, and are available to people who bought tickets to one or more of the concerts planned in the city, the Kaohsiung Economic Development Bureau said.
The concerts feature Hong Kong singer and actor Aaron Kwok (郭富城), Taiwanese rocker Wu Bai (伍佰) and South Korean girl group TWICE, who are to perform live in Taiwan for the first time, the bureau said.
Photo courtesy of the Kaohsiung Economic Development Bureau via CNA
Concert participants would be able to obtain coupons by presenting their tickets at the Kaohsiung metro’s Zuoying, Formosa Boulevard, Sanduo Shopping District, Kaohsiung Arena, Yanchengpu and Kaohsiung Main stations, it said.
The coupons can be used at four night markets and 400 select venues in the city, the bureau said.
Additionally, the municipality is to launch K-pop dance battles in collaboration with the city’s dance studios, restaurants and bars starting on Nov. 21 at the Kaohsiung Central Park shopping district, the bureau said.
Dream Mall, SKM Park, Hanshin Arena Shopping Plaza, Shin Kong Mitsukoshi and other big-name department stores in Kaohsiung are to roll out special deals and rebates to coincide with the concerts, it said.
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