Taipei Times
Date: Jan 07, 2020
By: Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
A total of 11.84 million international tourists visited Taiwan last year, a 7 percent increase over 2018, the
The Yiwu Wet Pond, known as the Sun Moon Lake of Yunlin County, is pictured in an undated photograph.
Photo courtesy of the Yunlin County Tourism and Culture Bureau
The growth was the highest since a 23.63 percent rise in 2014 and was largely due to the diversification of the sources of international tourists, it said.
The number of Chinese tourists rose by 0.5 percent to 2.71 million, thanks to a robust increase early in the year, despite Beijing’s move in August to block its nationals from visiting Taiwan.
The number of Japanese visitors surpassed 2 million for the first time on Dec. 9, while the number of South Korean tourists also increased, the bureau said. [FULL STORY]
