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Millions of Taiwanese tour mainland in 2009
By Zhao Chunzhe (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-01-08 17:48
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A total of 4.45 million trips were made from Taiwan to the Chinese mainland in 2009, a year-on-year increase of 1.5 percent, according to a report by China's National Tourism Administration, xinhuanet.com reported.
The report said that the improvement of the cross-Straits relations and the Taiwanese belief in the mainland's fast economic recovery are fuelling an increase in trips.
Cross-Straits direct flights have increased landing on more cities, which brought more tourists to the mainland and improved the cooperation between Taiwan and the mainland.
Mainland tourists to Taiwan totaled 639,991 trips with 24,564 tour groups between July 2008 and December 18, 2009, bringing direct revenue of $1.13 billion to Taiwan, the report said.
