A COVID-19 outbreak is battering the tourism industry to a greater extent than it was last year, so more relief and subsidy measures are necessary to avoid a massive collapse, operators have said.
Formosa International Hotels Group (晶華酒店集團) chairman Steve Pan (潘思亮) said that more than half of Taiwan’s hotels might go out of business in two to three months if the government does not help promptly.
“Taiwan’s tourism sectors are on the brink of collapse, and need relief and subsidy programs that are much stronger than last year’s to weather the pains of the spiraling virus outbreak,” Pan said.
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