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Taiwan offers double-entry permits to Chinese cruise visitors

 

Taipei: In a further bid to lure mainland Chinese cruise customers, Taiwan started yesterday to offer double-entry permits to Chinese tourists to encourage them to take cruises in and out of the island.
 
The double-entry permit will allow the tourists to arrive in the country, either by plane or on a cruise ship, and then enter Taiwan again exclusively on a cruise ship that leaves and then returns to Taiwan.
 
More than 2.3m of the 7m visitors to Taiwan last year were from China, according to Tourism Bureau statistics. The aim is to have 10m visitors by 2016.  [02/01/13]

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