Tourism departments in seven counties are to propose measures to improve their management of hotels and bed and breakfast services after they obtained “B” or “C” grades in the Tourism Bureau’s annual evaluation.
The evaluation, which was conducted from December last year to January, examines how a locality manages registered and unregistered hotels, and whether a city or county enforces measures to ensure the availability of safe accommodation, the bureau said.
The inspection team, which was made up of experts from a range of fields, gave an “A+” rating to Taipei, Taoyuan, Taichung, Tainan and Hsinchu City, as well as Taitung and
Flights to Europe are continuing as usual, despite Russia listing Taiwan as an “unfriendly” nation, Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) yesterday told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee.
“Some international carriers might have to adjust routes due to Russia’s war in Ukraine,” Wang said, adding that flights to European hubs such as Frankfurt, Germany, and Vienna are operating as usual.
Neither China Airlines nor EVA Airways fly over Russia or Ukraine, Civil Aeronautics Administration officials said.
Government agencies have together with Yang Ming Marine Transportation set up a platform to coordinate the
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) yesterday pledged to work with local travel agencies to promote tours to Palau.
The ministry made the remarks after Palauan President Surangel Whipps Jr last week accused China Airlines of “poisoning” its tourism market by frequently canceling flights to the Micronesian nation.
In March, Taiwan and Palau signed a “travel bubble” agreement, but due to a spike in locally transmitted COVID-19 infections in Taiwan, flights between the two countries were temporarily suspended from mid-May to the end of July, before being resumed on Aug. 1.
While flights to Ngerulmud reached an average load factor of 70