Taiwan wants to lure higher-spending travelers from Southeast Asia as Chinese arrivals dwindle, a shift that could reshape the island¡¯s tourism industry.
Despite increasingly fraught relations across the strait, visitors from across Asia, and Southeast Asia in particular, are traveling to Taiwan in greater numbers than before the pandemic, first-quarter data from Taiwan¡¯s Tourism Administration show.
The number of Thai visitors has risen 12% from the same period in 2019, according to the travel body, while Singapore¡¯s is up 10% and Malaysia¡¯s has reached pre-COVID levels.
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