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Foreign visitor numbers may fall below 1m this year
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
The number of international visitors is expected to fall below 1 million this year, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage around the world, the Tourism Bureau said yesterday.
Foreign travelers to Taiwan dropped from 11.84 million in 2019 to 1.377 million last year, bureau Director-General Chang Hsi-chung (張錫聰) told a media briefing in Taipei, adding that 1.3 million arrived during the first quarter, when the government had not yet banned foreign nationals from entering the country for tourism purposes.
With the travel ban still in the place, Chang said that the bureau was not optimistic about the projected number of foreign visitors this year.