The first group of mainland residents traveling to Taiwan for individual travel arrived in Taiwan

The first group of mainland residents traveling to Taiwan for individual traveling arrived in Taiwan At about 10 a.m. on the 28th, two groups of passengers from Xiamen, Fujian Province, arrived at Taipei Songshan Airport and Taipei Songshan Airport respectively...

At around 10 a.m. on the 28th, two groups of passengers from Xiamen, Fujian Province, arrived at Taipei Songshan Airport and Taichung Qingquangang Airport respectively, becoming the first individuals to arrive in Taiwan for individual travel.

It is understood that the 290 individual tourists who arrived in Taiwan on the 28th came from Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen. They will arrive at airports in Taipei, Taichung, Taoyuan and other places on the island one after another to carry out self-planned and personalized tours of the island.

Xiamen tourists, who came out on top, entered Kinmen via the "mini three links" on the same day, and then took a flight from Kinmen to the island. Lin Shifa, a tourist who came to Taiwan with his 90-year-old mother this time, put on the garland prepared by Taiwan's tourism department as soon as he got off the plane. He excitedly told the Xinhua News Agency reporter: "I feel very excited."

He told the reporter that he had never been to Taiwan and expected to visit for nine days this time. In addition to the tour, he will visit an uncle who now lives in Taiwan. Since group tours cannot leave the group for independent activities, this time I can take advantage of the opportunity of an individual tour to meet my uncle.

All walks of life in Taiwan showed great enthusiasm for the arrival of the first batch of individual tourists. At Songshan Airport, Taipei City Tourism Bureau Director Zhao Xinping personally served beef jerky, pineapple cakes, pearl milk tea and other foods to each passenger, and distributed gift certificates on the spot, hoping they would "enjoy a few more days in Taipei." Taipei's famous department store 101 also held a grand welcome ceremony to welcome them.

Zhao Xinping said: "It is estimated that after the opening of individual travel, the number of mainland tourists arriving in Taipei each year will reach 170,000. Based on each person staying for 7 days, it is expected to create a tourism industry of NT$2.4 billion. Value."

On July 18, 2008, mainland residents started a group tour to Taiwan, and cross-strait tourism moved from the one-way stage of "coming and going" to a new stage of "coming and going". On June 12 this year, at the Third Straits Forum held in Xiamen, Shao Qiwei, director of the National Tourism Administration, announced that individual travel for mainland residents to Taiwan will be officially launched on June 28. The first batch of pilot cities are Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen.