Taiwan wants more high-spending tourists from South-East Asia


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Locals and tourists at a night market in Taipei, Taiwan. — Lam Yik Fei/Bloomberg

Taiwan wants to lure higher-spending travellers from South-East 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 South-East Asia in particular, are travelling to Taiwan in greater numbers than before the pandemic, first-quarter data from Taiwan’s Tourism Administration show.

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