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Taiwan's inbound visitors increase by 27 per cent
Nov 1, 2010, 14:41 GMT
Taipei - The number of Taiwan's inbound visitor were up 27 per cent year-on-year, authorities said Monday.
In the first nine months of the year, 4 million foreigners entered Taiwan, the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics said.
Fifty-eight per cent were tourists while the rest were foreign businessmen, workers or students, the report said.
Of the total, 1.19 million - or 30 per cent - were from China, a 74-per-cent increase from last year.
Taiwan lifted its ban on Chinese tour groups in 2008 after President Ma Ying-jeou from the China-friendly Chinese Nationalist Party took office, and plans to open its door to individual tourists from the mainland in 2011.
In the January-September period, 7.26 million Taiwanese went abroad, up 20 per cent year-on-year, the statistics office said.
Of those, 50 per cent went to China, including Hong Kong and Macau, with the rest going mainly to Japan, South Korea and the United States.
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