The picture shows the 2021 Taipei International Tourism Exhibition. (Photo source: Taiwan's "China Times News Network")
China Taiwan Network reported on September 30th, according to Taiwan's "China Times", the administrative department of the Taiwan authorities announced on the 29th that the entry quarantine will be implemented for "0+7" free of home isolation from October 13, and 150,000 people will be allowed to enter the country every week. However, the island's tourist hotel association stated that if overseas tourists go to Taiwan to get infected, they still need to be quarantined, and have not truly implemented coexistence with the virus. After the policy is relaxed, the people on the island want to go out for fun, and the island's tourism business opportunities have come to an end. It will take a while for overseas tourists to go to Taiwan to normalize, which also means that for hotel operators, there are still 3 to 6 months of dark periods and pain periods.
In addition, in terms of epidemic prevention hotels, the Taiwan authorities subsidize 5,000 yuan per room ( NT$ , the same below). The Taiwan Tourism Hotel Association stated that passengers returning to Taiwan before October 12 will still have to be quarantined for 3 days, so epidemic prevention hotels cannot be completely emptied on October 13. In addition, the time for cleaning and silence is required, and it will take November to completely convert to a general hotel.
reported that although the Taiwan authorities' policies are loosened, they still lack supporting measures. The Taiwan Tourism Hotel Association said that the operators hope to loosen the two major measures, including the hotel industry that can use foreign migrant workers to solve the problem of insufficient labor, and continue to encourage tourism on the island to assist operators through the "pain period".
Travel Guild Chairman Xiao Boren said that after loosening the constraints, quick screening will replace the official quarantine, but the tour guide and the tour leader have no mandatory binding force on passengers and cannot require customers to be honest and quick screening. This will become a breakthrough and loophole in epidemic prevention, and it is also the reason why business opportunities cannot be recovered quickly in the short term.
Xiao Boren believes that although the loosening of the border is what industry expects, most passengers will still adopt a "waiting and watching" attitude in the early stage, and they will have to wait until March next year before their performance will have the opportunity to return to the pre-epidemic. (Editor/Li Ning Reviewed/Li Botao)
