By Shelley Shan / Staff reporterPeople who are planning to travel overseas during the holiday season are expected to pay 20 to 40 percent more for package tours, but they can still find inexpensive travel deals to several destinations, the Travel Quality Assurance Association yesterday told a news conference in Taipei, at which it released a forecast on group tour fees for the first quarter of next year.
BACK TO NORMAL? The move would be part of a gradual easing of curbs monitored by the CECC, which would retain the quarantine mandate if case numbers rise again/ Staff writer, with CNA
The travel industry would lose more than NT$10 billion (US$342.11 million) in sales revenue if there are unanticipated changes in COVID-19 vaccination policies for domestic tour groups, the Travel Agent Association said yesterday.
“We ask the Executive Yuan to continue offering subsidies to travel agencies and their employees until the borders are reopened,” association chairman Hsiao Po-jen (蕭博仁) told a news conference in Taipei.
On Friday last week, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced that from Friday, people must show that they have had three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine to be allowed in a group tour or into a gym.
However,