Taipei, Jan. 7 (CNA) Hotels in Taiwan will be restricted from supplying single-use toiletries and hospitality necessities from July 1 under new Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) rules aimed at reducing plastic waste.
Consumer prices last month rose 2.62 percent from a year earlier the seventh time it climbed above the 2 percent alert level last year as fuel, food and other consumption categories all became more expensive, the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) said yesterday.
The statistics agency reiterated that inflation would taper off after the Lunar New Year, even though CPI readings for the entire second half of last year defied its predictions of a slowdown.
“The inflationary pressures are indeed building up, but could have plateaued last quarter and would ease off this year quarter on quarter,” DGBAS
Major hotel chains are taking part in this year’s Taipei International Travel Fair, offering cutthroat prices to revitalize business, which had been hit hard by a local COVID-19 outbreak.
Cosmos Hotel & Resorts Group (天成飯店集團) is selling joint hotel vouchers priced at NT$1,800 (US$64.59) each for one-night stays with free breakfasts at its hotel facilities, 88 percent off the group’s regular room rates.
The facilities include Cosmos Taipei (台北天成大飯店) near Taipei Railway Station, Taipei Garden Hotel (台北花園大酒店) near Ximen MRT Station, Hua Shan Din (華山町) near Zhongxiao-Xinsheng MRT Station and the Sun Dialogue Hotel (繪日之丘) in Chiayi City.
Hotel Royal Group (老爺大酒店集團)
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Revenue at two hoteliers increase by double digits
HIGH OCCUPANCY: FDC International Hotels invited Taiwanese to stay at its properties to allow relatives returning from abroad to quarantine at their homes
By Crystal Hsu / Staff reporter
Two major Taiwanese hotel groups have reported that their revenue last month pick up by double-digit percentage points from one month earlier on the back of a high sales season, but the COVID-19 pandemic continued to weigh on their year-on-year showings.
FDC International Hotels Corp (雲品國際) yesterday said its revenue last month grew 15 percent from one month earlier to NT$221 million (US$7.76 million), but weakened 9.5 percent from a year earlier.