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Tourism market takes heavy hit amid COVID-19 surge 05/12/2021 06:04 PM Passengers wait for ferry in the outlying islands of Matsu in April. CNA file photo Taipei, May 12 (CNA) The escalating COVID-19 numbers in Taiwan this week has caught the local tourism sector off-guard, with some reporting financial losses and expressing pessimism toward the future market outlook on Wednesday. Since the government tightened disease control measures the previous day following multiple domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases of unknown origin, many tourism operators have been forced to cancel tours, according to Travel Quality Assurance Association spokesman Ringo Lee (李奇嶽). Lee said his own company has suffered a loss of NT$7.5 million (US$269,000) from cancellations of graduation tours, as the government has instructed schools to suspend off-campus events. ....
CNA file photo Taipei, May 11 (CNA) The Novotel airport hotel in Taoyuan, which is at the center of a COVID-19 infection cluster and currently closed for disinfection, will be used exclusively for quarantine guests when it reopens in late June, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications said Tuesday. We hope to place as many flight crew as possible in quarantine hotels near the airport to reduce the risk of community transmission, said Deputy Transportation Minister Chi Wen-jong (祁文中). The current COVID-19 quarantine measures applied to China Airline (CAL) pilots have already created demand for 600-800 rooms, Chi said. Turning CAL-owned Novotel into a dedicated quarantine unit will secure all its 500 rooms for flight crew members, mostly those from CAL, facilitating more efficient disease control amid tight hotel room supply, he said. ....
Photo from the Palau Visitors Authority s Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/officialpva Taipei, May 11 (CNA) A travel bubble arrangement between Taiwan and its Pacific diplomatic ally Palau will remain in place, even though the Taiwanese carrier that operates flights destined for Palau is combating a pilot shortage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Deputy Transportation Minister Chi Wen-jong (祈文中) said Tuesday. The Taiwan-Palau travel bubble program officially began on April 1, allowing residents of the two countries to travel largely quarantine-free, provided they follow certain protocols, such as only traveling in groups. China Airlines (CAL), one of Taiwan s largest carriers, which operates flights under the travel bubble program, has arranged sufficient manpower to operate the travel bubble route, Chi said. ....
On train safety, reform rhetoric easy; now comes the hard part 04/28/2021 07:34 PM To activate the text-to-speech service, please first agree to the privacy policy below. A Taiwan Railways Administration employee mourns victims in the April 2 Taroko Express train crash, including two of his colleagues. CNA photo April 8, 2021 By Lee Hsin-Yin, CNA staff reporter Taiwan s president, premier and new transportation minister have all advocated reforming the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) following its worst train accident in 73 years on April 2 that left 49 people dead and over 200 injured. Such appeals are nothing new they were also uttered after a crash in October 2018 in which 18 people died but were not acted on. ....
April 08, 2021 A crane lifts the wreckage of a truck which was hit by the train a day after the deadly train derailment at a tunnel north of Hualien, Taiwan, on April 3, 2021. Reuters TAIPEI - More body parts have been found when the crushed remains of the last carriage of a train that derailed on Taiwan s scenic east coast was finally pulled out from a tunnel at the crash site, almost a week after the accident. The latest discovery of human remains late on Tuesday night (April 6) by workmen who lifted the eighth carriage of the 408 Taroko Express, which was sliced in half when it crashed headlong into the tunnel wall on April 2, led prosecutors to believe that the death toll could change. ....