Taiwan Turns to Southeast Asian Tourists as Chinese Stay Away
- Visitors from Malaysia to Singapore drive holiday revenue
- Pivot could reshape Taiwan’s China-reliant tourism sector
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Taiwan wants to lure higher-spending travelers from Southeast Asia as Chinese arrivals dwindle, a shift that could reshape the island’s tourism industry.
Despite increasingly fraught relations across the strait, visitors from across Asia, and Southeast Asia in particular, are traveling to Taiwan in greater numbers than before the pandemic, first-quarter data from Taiwan’s Tourism Administration show.