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Foreign visitors drive Taiwan's hotel occupancy rate up
Nov 11, 2010, 4:36 GMT
Taipei - Taiwan's hotel occupancy rate increased 5.3 percentage points year-on-year in the first nine months of this year because of a surge in foreign visitors, the Tourism Bureau said Thursday.
Between January and September, the average occupancy rate of Taiwan tourist hotels was 67.4 per cent.
The increased occupancy rate was from the rising numbers of foreign visitors, especially from China and Japan, the bureau said.
In the first nine months this year, Taiwan received 4 million overseas visitors, up 27 per cent year-on-year.
China accounted for 1.19 million, or 30 per cent, of them, a 74-per-cent increase from last year, and 782,320 or 19.5 per cent, were from Japan, up 6 per cent from last year, the bureau said.
The discrepancy between the increase in tourist hotel occupancy and the number of visitors arriving is because many stayed in ordinary hotels, motels and inns, which were excluded from the survey, the bureau said.
Taiwan is building dozens of tourist hotels and plans to add a third terminal to its largest airport - Taoyuan International Airport - in 2014 to boost tourism.
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