According to comprehensive Taiwan media reports, the "Tourism Administration", Taiwan's transportation authority, suddenly announced on February 7 that the original plan to open Taiwan people to the mainland after the Spring Festival will no longer be carried out, and travel agencies will stop soliciting tour groups to the mainland from now on, and they will not be able to go to the mainland after June 1. This "New Year's gift package" caught the island's tourism industry off guard, and even detonated the island's anger, pointing directly at the authorities' use of people's rights and interests, and treating Taiwan's tourism industry and tourists as "hostages" to blackmail the mainland, and Lai Qingde's "choose one set before and one set later" has chilled the hearts of the island's industry insiders.
Taiwanese tourism industry: policy changes to deceive the public, or take to the streets**
very sad and angry" and "I can't eat Chinese New Year's Eve food" ......Representatives of Taiwan's tourism industry held a press conference in Taipei on the 8th to express their anger and anger against the authorities. Wu Yanhui, vice president of the Taiwan Travel Business Association, said that the predictable tourism dispute had caused public outrage. He pointed out that the announcement of the "ban on group tours" by the authorities has made the island's business operators jump, and April to June is the peak season for mainland tourism, especially in June, when 70 or 80 percent of the tourists have already been received. He said that in the absence of a reasonable explanation, it cannot be ruled out that Lai Ching-te, the newly elected leader of the Taiwan region, will take to the streets on May 20, the day he takes office.
The leader of a travel agency in Taiwan took the group members to queue up at Taoyuan Airport to check in. * Taiwan's "China Times News Network".
Chen Yixuan, chairman of the Taipei City Tourism Association, said that nearly 90 percent of Taiwan's nearly 4,000 tourism operators are engaged in business with the mainland. Many operators specialize in the mainland market, and originally planned to expand after the holiday, because the authorities said that how many people will lose their jobs after the New Year? She bluntly said that the authorities' policy changes every day is fundamentally to deceive the people.
Li Qiyue, chairman of Taiwan's China Quality Tourism Development Association, stressed that many travel agencies in the central and southern parts of the country, the main business is to pick up mainland groups, Taiwanese consumers also want to go to the mainland, and now the policy is suddenly changed, that is, to cheat votes, is to tie consumers and operators to the political and ideological struggle, in addition to losing confidence in the world, more groups that have been collected may become "underground groups", insurance disputes and other risks increase, Lai Qingde to further express how to deal with it.
Taiwan's Cross-Strait Travel Association issued a statement on the 8th, saying that in the face of cross-strait difficulties, the ruling party on the island should handle it in a smart way and cannot make a decision that sacrifices the rights and interests of the people on the island. Otherwise, the regret and dissatisfaction caused by the injury will not be able to make up for the trust and scars of the industry in power.
One set before the election, one set after the election" was criticized for cheating votes, which chilled the industry
Kuomintang "legislator" Wang Hongwei said that the authorities promised to lift the "ban on group groups" in March before the election, and broke their promise less than a month after the election.
Lai Zhengyi, chairman of the Taiwan Chamber of Commerce, said that the authorities should follow the pre-election promise to open Taiwan group tourists to travel to the mainland in March, and at the end of last year, various travel agencies have begun to publicize and collect group tourists. He pointed out that before the election, Tsai Ing-wen and Lai Qingde both said that they would increase cross-strait exchanges, but the "New Year's gift package" given to travel agencies after the election turned out to be a request for travel agencies to stop soliciting group tourists to the mainland, which is tantamount to defrauding votes in the name of false opening.
Lai Qingde (left) and Tsai Ing-wen. * Taiwan's "China Times News Network".
Tsai Ing-wen is unwilling to be lonely and wants to offend the anger of the people? Can you lose faith in the people and viciously snatch the people's jobs? Huang Zhixian, a senior person in Taiwan, said that last year, the island's tourism industry held a 7,000-person meeting to demand the opening of cross-strait tourism. Wang Guocai, the head of the transportation department on the next roof, immediately announced the opening to the industry. She also questioned, ** The authorities announced during the election that they would open the mainland delegation of Taiwan from March 1, and now they have repented and lost their trust in the people, "Is this considered a vote fraud"?
Taiwan's "China Times News Network" commented that the authorities caught the industry off guard, triggering a strong ** in the tourism industry, threatening to "launch a protest" after the year. For Tsai Ing-wen, who has entered the "caretaker" stage, this move is like planting a landmine for the next leader of the Taiwan region, which is very unkind; For Lai Qingde, before he took over, he had a "dismount", which opened an unfriendly starting style for the future, "choose one set before, choose one set later", which chilled the hearts of the people on the island.
"Anti-China" measures will not hurt the mainland, but they may become a killer of "poor Taiwan."
Due to the large gap between the two sides of the strait, the authorities' 'ban on group groups' measures actually punish Taiwan's tourism industry and Taiwanese people. Li Qingguo, a senior person in Taiwan, said that Taiwan's group visitors to the mainland in one year are about 2 million, accounting for only 1 million foreign tourists from the mainland1. of 300 million people54%, which has very little impact on the mainland tourism market; However, the authorities abandoned the "group ban" originally scheduled to lift the mainland tourism ban from March 1, and suddenly announced that travel agencies were prohibited from soliciting tour groups to the mainland, and from June before the peak tourist season, Taiwan's more than 4,000 travel operators operating in the mainland market suffered heavy losses.
Li Qingguo pointed out that all kinds of "anti-China" measures cannot hurt the mainland, but they may become the killers of "poor Taiwan." ** The authorities are cowardly and incompetent in breaking their word, having no integrity at all, and taking the rights and interests of their own people. "Lai Qingde is so tough before he comes to power, and the people must strongly resist this, otherwise Lai (the authorities) will only intensify in the future. ”
Taiwan Taoyuan Airport. * Taiwan's "China Times News Network".
Lai Zhengyi said that when cross-strait tourism exchanges were at their most prosperous, they brought huge business opportunities to Taiwan. After the epidemic, all parts of the world have tried to promote the recovery of tourism, but Taiwan is the only one who has engaged in ideology and abandoned the island's tourism industry and people's rights and interests. He said that land tourists cannot come to Taiwan, hundreds of thousands of tourism-related families are already miserable, and now they are banned from going to the mainland, which is simply worse.
This is to use Taiwan's tourism industry and tourists as 'hostages' to blackmail the mainland. Huang Zhixian pointed out that "if you use communication and tourism as a sharp weapon to engage in 'the world's first, you will definitely pay a price." ”
In response to this matter, Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said a few days ago that the Taiwan people have been looking forward to organizing groups to travel to the mainland for a long time, and the tourism industry on the island has been calling on the authorities to lift the ban as soon as possible. Since August last year, the Taiwan authorities concerned have claimed on several occasions that they have made plans for the resumption of group tours to the mainland organized by Taiwan travel agencies, but at the same time, they have always attached conditions, which have always been political calculations. Today (7th), Taiwan's tourism authority announced that the original plan will no longer be implemented, and it is not the first time that such a reversal has occurred.
Zhu Fenglian pointed out that this will only make the Taiwan people and the tourism industry once again dissatisfied with the political manipulation carried out by the authorities with tourism, hindering exchanges between compatriots on both sides of the strait, and harming the well-being of compatriots on both sides of the strait. (*February 9** Road).