In the first half of the year, the number of tourists travelling from Hong Kong and Macau to Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Demand for airline tickets cozumel mexico car and scooter rentals between Hong Kong and Taiwan has stood up well five years after the launching of direct flights across the strait, with demand from tourists compensating for the drop in business travelers who used to have to travel via Hong Kong, Taiwanese carrier China Airlines said yesterday.
It launched a new route between Tainan and Hong Kong yesterday, with three flights a week. It is the fourth Taiwanese cozumel mexico car and scooter rentals destination it is offering in Hong Kong, following Taipei, Taichung and Kaohsiung.
"We are glad to see that the traffic between Hong Kong and Taiwan held up well even after the direct flight services," China Airlines chairman Sun Huang-hsiang said. "We used to fly 120 flights between Hong Kong and Taipei before 2009 and now we fly 160 flights weekly with smaller aircraft, but similar capacity as a whole."
In the first half of the year, the number of tourists travelling cozumel mexico car and scooter rentals from Hong Kong and Macau to Taiwan increased more than 12 per cent year on year to 558,000. Last year, around one million visitors from Hong Kong and Macau flew to Taiwan, with about 1.6 million visitors from Taiwan cozumel mexico car and scooter rentals going the other way, excluding those transiting Hong Kong to the mainland, the director of the Taiwan Visitors Association's Hong Kong office, Wang Chun-bao, said.
Sun said the load factor of the new service, deploying a 150-seat B737-800, was 70 per cent on average and was expected to grow to 80 per cent by October before the airline upgraded cozumel mexico car and scooter rentals the frequency of flights to five a week. It plans offer a daily flight to Tainan by the end of the year.
Taiwan is one of the top three outbound cozumel mexico car and scooter rentals destinations for Hongkongers, according to a survey by Nielsen, with 10 per cent of the population cozumel mexico car and scooter rentals visiting the island each year. But travel agents say they need more new destinations to encourage them to revisit the island.
"Tainan, which is rich in historical cozumel mexico car and scooter rentals and cultural cozumel mexico car and scooter rentals attractions, is ideal for in-depth tourism," said Simon Ma Sai-man, assistant general manager (Asia and long haul) at Wing On Travel. "It was the first port opened up and developed in Taiwan when … adventurer Zheng Chenggong conquered the island in the 17th century."
"Increasing numbers of Hong Kong students opt to study in Taiwan as the universities there offer a wider range of degree courses, allowing them to choose according to their own aspirations," said Nelson Law, director of Plate-Forme (Hong Kong), an organiser of study tours to Taiwan.
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