介绍:
The cap on independent mainland tourists visiting Taiwan has been raised from 4,000 to 5,000 per day starting from this week as the island tried to recover from declining tourism revenue.
Taiwan authorities released the policy after the island's financial agency announced that its tourism revenue has got affected by the global spending slowdown.
At the same time, the number of visitors allowed to travel between east China's Fujian Province and Kinmen and Matsu was increased from 500 to 1,000 per day from Sept. 10.
The daily number of mainland group tourists remains the same.
Taiwan firms are further encouraged to give their mainland employees incentive tours to Taiwan without visa fees or quota restrictions.
Caps on visitors numbers have been raised several times since 2008, when mainland tourists were first allowed to visit Taiwan.
