{"id":18456,"date":"2010-11-18T05:31:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T21:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/en\/?p=18456"},"modified":"2010-11-18T05:31:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T21:31:44","slug":"taiwan-to-open-to-individual-mainland-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2010\/11\/18\/18456\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan To Open To Individual Mainland Tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan is scheduled to allow individual tourists from the Chinese mainland to travel to the island in January 2011 &#8212; a month earlier than originally planned.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to a Taiwanese local government official, the new policy will first be applied to business travelers from Shanghai and Beijing, and the minimum number of individual tourists will be one.<\/p>\n<p>The move is expected to boost Taiwan's retail and tourism markets, thus helping to raise the salaries of people in the island and even expand the real estate market.<\/p>\n<p>The local government in Taiwan has said that the number of mainland visitors to Taiwan is expected to reach three million a year over the next three years and will continue to increase.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan's travel market was opened to group tourists traveling directly from the Chinese mainland in July 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan is scheduled to allow individual tourists from the Chinese mainland to travel to the island in January 2011 &#8212; a month earlier than originally planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[12759,12778,12764,12900,12831,12782],"class_list":["post-18456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-beijing","tag-fit","tag-shanghai","tag-taiwan","tag-tour-group","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}