According to the Hong Kong China News Agency, mainland tourists' groups return to zero and impact the Kaohsiung jewelry industry chain, which relies on tourists. The ZETA Jetta Group diamond store, which is jointly cooperated with by Taiwan and Hong Kong, has been deeply locked. Jetta Jewelry General Manager Zhang Zhenzong said on the 10th that there will be no mainland delegation since January 31 after the Lunar New Year. Now, in line with the Tsai administration's epidemic prevention policy, cross-strait flights have been greatly reduced. Although the company retains basic manpower, details such as the operation or future business direction of the relevant company are not convenient to disclose. Jetta Jetta Jewelry, located on Zhongzheng Road, , Kaohsiung City, , a single point business area of 2,500 square meters, is known as the number one in Asia and is the leader of Kaohsiung's "four major jewelry stores". Its market share in the past exceeded 30% won the championship in Taiwan. In 2008, the operating projects expanded from diamonds to watches, souvenirs, corals, and gems, with a range of tourist hot zones such as Taipei City, Hualien, , Taitung , and Kaohsiung. In 2014, I bought two star-rated hotels in Kaohsiung and joined the operation, but since 2016, cross-strait exchanges have been broken and mainland groups have been greatly reduced. It is understood that from the peak of the jewelry store, it exceeded 1,000 groups per month, to 2018 and 2019, there were only more than 300 groups per month, and the number of visitors was "cut in half and then cut in half". The high-mountain tea and other stores next to the jewelry store were also pulled down because no mainland tourists came to the door.
A reporter from China Review News Agency actually visited on the morning of the 10th and found that the Jetta Jewelry Store had a deep iron door lock. He asked Wang Zhiqiang, the administrator of the building next door, said that the number of mainland tourists has decreased since 2018. After the Lunar New Year this year, there are no more tourist buses to stop. There are no more traffic buses to go back to Zhongzheng Road. The surrounding shops selling fruits and tea have already pulled down the iron door. Wang Zhiqiang told the China Review News Agency that these jewelry stores used to be very good business, and hundreds of tour buses might have stopped in one morning, causing motorcycle riders to ride on Zhongzheng Road to scold them, but now there are few doors and traffic is much smoother, highlighting the one-stop operation of mainland tourists themselves to be affected by cross-strait relations and the epidemic.
The cross-strait exchanges and tourism started in 2008 to drive many glorious sights, and jewelry salesmen also benefited from cross-strait exchanges and bought houses in high-end residential areas. However, due to the epidemic and the failure of mainland tourists, jewelry stores have gradually tightened their layoffs.
Another Kaohsiung company specializing in the mainland jewelry business, Baodeli, ended its business as early as October 19 last year, and the front door was full of motorcycles.
At present, only Jetta and Universal remain in the four major jewelry stores in Kaohsiung, and the rest such as Vincent Paul and Baodeli have long been closed. Vincent Paul is located on the first floor of Kaohsiung Dream Times, but the owner fled with the middle of the payment last year, resulting in the employees not being able to receive their salary and sued the court. The lawsuit is still in progress; as for Baodeli Jewelry, it is located next to Dayuan Department Store on Zhongshan Road, but it also ended on October 19 last year. A hundred of its employees were deported, and many of them are receiving unemployment subsidies from the Labor Bureau to make a living.
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