TOUGH TIMES: Tourism subsidies have raised occupancy rates in central and southern Taiwan, but rates at hotels in metropolitan areas this month remained low at 20%
Taipei Times
Date: Jun 24, 2020
By: Shelley Shan / Staff reporter, in Taitung County
Virus Outbreak: Tour subsidy gets NT$2 billion more
Lin, who made the announcement on a trip to Taitung to promote domestic tourism, as Taiwan’s borders remain closed to international tourists, participated in a tour of the pineapple harvest in Luye Township (鹿野鄉) and learned how to make pineapple jam.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people this summer would be visiting local tourist attractions, instead of going abroad, Lin said.
The ministry had budgeted NT$3.9 billion for the second phase of disease prevention tours, Lin said, referring to subsidies of domestic tours from next month to October.
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