Fujian Initiates Program To Promote Tourism

According to People's Daily, Fujian province in China will join forces with the travel authorities of both mainland China and Taiwan to initiate a program to attract more mainland tourists to visit Jinmen, Mazu, Penghu, and Taiwan Island via Fujian.

It is reported that the Fujian Provincial Tourism Bureau has sent a proposal to the tourism bureaus of 25 Chinese provinces which have been allowed to provide services to Taiwan, calling on these provinces to join its program of organizing more than one million tourists for trips across the Taiwan Strait. FPTB says it will work with provincial travel companies and tourism professionals from Taiwan to organize three groups this year to promote the program in other Chinese provinces.

In recent years, Fujian province has been actively cooperating with the Taiwanese tourism industry and has achieved remarkable results. Statistics from FPTB shows that in the first quarter of this year, more than 10,000 mainland tourists visited Taiwan via Fujian, and by the end of March 2009, over 71,000 Fujian residents had visited Jinmen, Mazu, or Penghu and more than 12,000 Fujian residents had visited Taiwan Island.