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Article: Mainland tourists spend 25 mln USD in Taiwan during Chinese New Year holiday
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- February 2, 2009
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Mainland tourists spend 25 mln USD in Taiwan during Chinese New
Year holiday
TAIPEI, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- About 13,400 Chinese mainland tourists
flocked to Taiwan last week, spending 850 million New Taiwan dollars
(25.5 million U.S. dollars) in their first Spring Festival holiday
on the island.
Each visitor spent a daily average of about 9,000 NTD from Jan.
26, the first day of the Spring Festival or lunar New Year, to Feb.
1, said Chang Shi-Chung, of the Taiwan tourism authority, Monday.
About 60 percent of mainland tourists opted for a seven-night
schedule, and the arrivals peaked on Jan. 26 when more than 3,000
arrived, he said.
Taiwan's Sun-Moon Lake drew the most mainland visitors, ...