Tourism in Taiwan

Most visitors land at utilitarian Chiang Kai-shek International Airport and drive to Taipei, where they spend a few days in the city's perpetual gray haze. But Taipei and the industrial west coast are only a small part of Taiwan. The rest of the island is covered with remote, forested mountains, which are laced with hundreds of hiking trails. Taiwan is home to the highest mountain in east Asia. . . (Hannon, 2001, 33).

Due to continued reduction in export sales, Taiwan's economy in the 2000-2005 period is expected to only grow by about 4.5 percent, lower than the previous target of 6.04 percent. In 2001, Taiwanese citizens took more than 6.5 million overseas trips, a 10.98 percent increase from the previous year. The money spent abroad reached about USD 7.4 billion, a slight increase of 0.91 percent over 2000. Sightseeing trips consisted of a large percentage of the visits.

Opposed to this, world citizens coming into Taiwan during the same period numbered 3.11 million, which is a considerable net loss. Interest in Taiwanese tourism among Taiwan travel in

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.19 Indonesia 141,740 150,430 6.13 Philippines 188,163 139,842 -25.68 Netherlands 66,909 107,682 60.94 Source: Taiwan Tourism Bureau. (Note: TTB's data is the only source for this information available in Taiwan. Travel destinations are reported based upon the plane's first stop, even when the passenger actually continues onward.
B. Where Do they Stay? Taiwan, even with its fine environment still has a ways to go in terms of luxury accommodations. This is in line with the image problem description that opened this report. Of course, this aspect of the situation is yet to be determined. The things that Taiwan is most excited aboutùthe Asia Pacific Regional Operations Centre and the High Tech Green Silicon Island concept-are truly wonderful for the economy, but are not particularly conducive to tourism. For instance, it is hard to estimate that throngs of the general population will want to come to Taiwan to see the high tech centers, or the computerized operational centers. Tourism still relies on fun and adventure and relaxation. And that is not readily in abundance in Taiwan. There is plenty of natural beauty, but the feelin
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