Tourism sector struggles with mainland influx

 

 

TAIPEI: Business has never been better for replica watches Chang Shih-Chun, a tour guide, for the past five year. His biggest headache was the scarcity of customers. That's not the case now. Since Taiwan opened tourism to mainlanders last year, Chang has been struggling to keep up with the work. Experienced tour guides are working non-stop over the past couple of months, and raking in at least NT$46,000 a month, he said. Rushing from one scenic spot to another, with gaggles of tourists in Piguet Watches tow, is physically demanding. Every tour guide carries a pack of various tonics and throat candy, he noted. Prior to the outbreak of A (H1N1) influenza, the number of tourists from the mainland was over 3,000 daily. Straits Exchange Foundation Secretary-General Kao Koong-lian estimated that the number of mainland visitors this year will reach 800,000, adding NT$20 billion to Taiwan's revenues. As mainlanders swarm in, Taiwan's travel sector is showing signs of wholesale watch strain. A shortage of tour guides is only one example. Aeromarine Watches Bentley Watches Chronomatic Evolution Watches Hercules Watches Just Added Breitling Watches Buckingham Grande Date Horizontal Just Added Romulus Sugar Cube