Journey businesses to obtain grants for Hualien, Taitung

• By Shelley Shan / Workers Reporter

The Tourism Bureau on Monday introduced again a program to supply charter-flight subsidies to journey businesses that convey worldwide vacationers to Hualien and Taitung counties.

This system gives incentives to journey operators that constitution flights carrying 50 or extra vacationers from exterior Taiwan and land in Hualien or Taitung counties.

Flights from Japan are to draw a NT$385,000 subsidy, whereas these from South Korea and Southeast Asian international locations can obtain NT$335,000, the bureau stated.

Constitution flights from the Philippines, China, Hong Kong, Macau and different nations would every be sponsored NT$285,000, it stated.

Journey businesses are to obtain extra subsidies if a constitution flight has greater than 50 p.c of the plane’s seats stuffed, the bureau stated.

Nevertheless, because the bureau goals to bolster the variety of guests taking part in festivities across the Lunar New 12 months and Taiwan Lantern Pageant intervals, 40 p.c extra subsidies are being supplied if flights are 30 p.c full from Sunday to Feb.28, and to take impact once more Jan.1 to March 31 subsequent 12 months and Jan.1 to March 31 in 2025, the rules say.

Journey businesses can obtain an extra 10 p.c of its qualifying subsidy if the vacationers spend at the very least one night time in a lodge in Hualien or Taitung, the bureau stated.