According to the Hong Kong China Review News Agency, Zhao Chengcheng, chairman of the Taichung City Tourism Association and general manager of Changjiang Advertising Company, said in an interview with the China Review News Agency that the new pneumonia epidemic has severely damaged Taiwan's tourism industry. In addition to surviving the impact of the epidemic, operators must also try to make up for heavy losses. Mainland tourists are no longer booming, and it may not be easy to make up for the losses caused by the epidemic. Business operators must take advantage of now to strive to transform and explore diversified markets.
Zhao Chengcheng said that Taiwan’s tourism industry benefited a lot from the boom in mainland tourists in the past. In recent years, the number of mainland tourists has dropped sharply. Taiwan’s tourism industry can only be described as “miserable”. The tourism output value of Taichung City alone has dropped by more than 50%. Based on the current cross-strait interactions, he assessed that the prosperity of mainland tourists will be difficult to recover, and it is imperative to develop alternative customer sources.
Zhao Chengcheng said that the new pneumonia epidemic has caused serious losses to Taiwan's tourism industry. Most industry players hope that the epidemic can be controlled and slowed down before the peak spring tourist season in March, reducing tourism losses. However, just assessing the tourism output value from January to the end of March is insufficient new NT$5.12 trillion. If the epidemic continues to worsen, the damage may become even more severe.
Zhao Chengcheng pointed out that in the past, when the number of mainland visitors to Taiwan was at its peak, more than 4 million mainland visitors came to Taiwan a year, creating a tourism output value of more than 210 billion yuan. If this huge market still exists, perhaps Taiwan's tourism industry can easily To make up for the losses caused by the epidemic, but now that the number of tourists from mainland China has dropped sharply, even to zero, the challenge for the industry to make up for the losses caused by the epidemic is even greater.
Zhao Chengcheng said that without mainland tourists coming, Taiwan’s tourism industry must actively transform now and explore other markets so that they can quickly replenish their blood after the epidemic. However, Zhao Chengcheng also said that politics is divided into blue, green, white and red, but tourism exchanges are colorful. Cross-strait tourism has nothing to do with politics. He believes that maintaining good interactions will be beneficial to each other's economic and trade development. He still looks forward to cross-strait tourism. Communication continues.
