E-visa service helps attract visitors from HK, Macau

As of Thursday, 1,202,523 Hong Kong or Macau travelers had visited Taiwan on e-visas since the new system was launched Sept. 1, 2010, according to agency statistics.

In 2009, when there was no e-visa service and the visa-handling fee was NT$300 (US$9.96), 488,496 travelers from the two regions visited Taiwan, the statistics showed.

The number of visitors grew to 606,293 in 2010 and 696,657 last year, the agency added.

Despite a loss of NT$90 million in application fees, the growth in visitor numbers benefited the local economy, with each traveler spending an average of NT$28,000 during a stay that lasted four days on average, the agency noted.

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