[Comprehensive News] The COVID-19 epidemic has made the already sluggish tourism and other industries on the island even worse. It is reported that double-decker sightseeing buses are often no-load. Kaohsiung Mayor Kuang Yu Han-yu 27 After visiting on the 227th, many businesses could no longer stand the epidemic and went bankrupt.
In addition, the latest data on the 27th showed that Taiwan's prosperity lights in January and the consumer confidence index in February both fell month-on-month.
Multiple double-decker sightseeing buses every day are no-load
The new crown pneumonia epidemic continues to spread, hitting Taiwan's economy hard. Han Kuo-yu visited the merchants on the 27th and then said that the COVID-19 epidemic has a huge impact on Kaohsiung merchants.
Taipei China Times reported that Han Kuo-yu said that due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Kaohsiung's tourism, catering, cultural and creative industries have been affected, and many small self-employed stores could not hold on and ended their business.
Due to the impact of the epidemic, the hotel situation in Taipei is not optimistic. Shanghai has learned that, nowadays, the double-decker tourist bus in Taipei has become a "severely affected household". The passenger load rate in February alone set the worst record since its opening in three years. In the past month, less than 100 people were present. Currently, each car only carries 3 people, and there are even a state where at least five or six shifts are "0" unloaded in a day.
In response to this, Xu Haoyuan, CEO of Taipei City’s double-decker tourist bus, bluntly stated that the double-decker tourist bus is the storefront of Taiwan’s tourism and cannot be allowed to close. It doesn’t matter if the operator does not make money, but at least don’t lose money. He called on the authorities to lend a helping hand to allow double-decker sightseeing buses to survive by subsidizing or opening cross-regional business, chartered car rental in the travel industry, etc.
On the evening of March 20, 2019, the Taipei Shilin Tourist Night Market was crowded with people. (Photo source: China News Service)
The number of visitors to Taipei Shilin Night Market plummeted by more than 40%
According to the Hong Kong China Review News Agency, Taipei City Councillor Wang Hongwei said on the 27th that since the outbreak of the epidemic, her office has investigated four major aspects: the number of visitors to Taipei business districts and night markets, the main MRT station traffic volume, tourism housing rate, and the Labor Bureau’s unpaid leave notification. It was surprising that many data were all new lows in recent years. The average number of visitors to Taipei business districts dropped by 30% to 50%. The number of passengers in the MRT has seen the worst negative growth in 10 years, and the market conditions are tragic, catching up with the international financial tsunami in 2008.
Among them, the number of visitors to Taipei Shilin Night Market, which is loved by tourists, dropped by 44% in January compared with the same period last year, becoming a severely affected area.
Wang Hongwei said that among the losses of the epidemic, tourism is the first to be affected. It turns out that mainland tourists are prohibited from traveling to Taiwan is strict enough. South Korea currently accounts for 10% of the total number of tourists in Taipei. Now the epidemic in South Korea is rising, and all entry from South Korea will be quarantined for 14 days. South Korean tourists are also banned. Taipei City's tourism and service industry is definitely adding insult to injury.
Wang Hongwei further reminded that according to the returns of the Taipei Labor Bureau, there are currently 21 cases of unpaid leave in the city. If the government does not make any decisions, the number of merchants and companies that cannot hold on will be gone by one or two months. Who else will they save? Who else can you save?
The situation in each county is also very dangerous. You Meizhuang, chairman of the Pingtung County Small and Medium Enterprises Association, also said in an interview that the small and medium-sized enterprises in Pingtung County are mainly traditional industries, catering retail, and tourism and accommodation industries. The most affected by this wave of epidemic is the tourism industry. Almost all of them are not injured. Even if they survive, they are covered in bruises and injuries. Secondly, the operators who run large restaurants have all gone out of spring wine and banquets, and a lot of business has been lost.
2 consumer confidence index both declined month-on-month
Taiwan's "National Development Conference" released statistics on the 27th, showing that the comprehensive judgment score of Taiwan's economic countermeasures signal in January this year was 25 points, a decrease of 2 points from the previous month, and the light continued to be green. The agency said that the situation in February was not optimistic and it is not ruled out to turn to yellow and blue lights.
Xinhua News Agency reported that according to reports, the signal of economic response is also called the prosperity light. A green light indicates that the current prosperity is stable, while a blue light indicates that the prosperity is sluggish. Yellow and blue lights are attention-oriented lights, so it is advisable to closely observe whether the subsequent economic trend will turn.
Relevant person in charge of the institution said that among the nine projects that constituted the economic response signal in January, the wholesale, retail and catering industries turned from green light to blue light, and the score decreased by 2 points.
On the same day, the Taiwan Economic Research and Development Center of Central University of Taiwan released the February Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) survey, with a total of 83.93 points, a decrease of 1.37 points compared with the previous month. All six indicators fell, with the largest decline being the opportunity to invest in the stock market and the lowest decline being the employment opportunity. The six sub-indicators of the
CCI survey are price levels, family economic conditions, domestic economic prosperity, employment opportunities, timing of investing in the stock market, and buying durable wealth. Five indicators all tend to be pessimistic indicators, and only "the timing of buying durable wealth in the next six months" tend to be optimistic. (End)
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