Asia Focus, 10-5-2006
Taiwan's foreign exchange earnings from tourism totaled US$4.98 billion last year, setting an all-time record, according to statistics released Wednesday by the Directorate General of Budget Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS).
The statistics also show that forex earnings from tourism in the first six months of this year reached US$2.53 billion. * In terms of visitors, 2004 saw 2.95 million tourist arrivals, with the total growing to 3.38 million in 2005. * For the first eight months of this year, tourist arrivals already reached 2.3 million, while the average cost of a hotel room increased to NT$3,131 per night, with Asians making up 79.3 per cent of tourist arrivals in 2005.
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