Still reviewing all sorts of SCS stuff...but have a few links for the nonce...
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Daily Links:
- DON'T MISS: Election districts will be redrawn: bad news for KMT
- Why Taiwan is so well prepared for super typhoons
- Ketagalan: Taiwanese intellectuals of the 1920s
- Foreign students in Taiwan: Be Global Cultural Ambassador
- The News Lens: Interview with anti-death penalty group in Taiwan
- News Lens: With the politics-driven, entirely artificial Chinese tourist "boom" coming to an end, the hotel sector faces a day of reckoning. Were people really stupid enough to imagine that would go on forever?
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3 comments:
Michael, you quoted:
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With the politics-driven, entirely artificial Chinese tourist "boom" coming to an end, the hotel sector faces a day of reckoning.
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Really? Even with an overall increase in tourism?
Tim Maddog
Yes because a portion of the new hotel sector depends on tour groups.
I think it's great that so many boutique hotels and B&Bs opened up, especially outside the major cities. The worst part of any round-island travel used to be the paucity of accommodation on the east coast, and how awful what was available was. I'm quite thankful the Chinese boom prodded people into investing in this sector and providing a lot more options, and much better options. I'm even more thankful the numbers are slowing down to make Taiwan a more attractive travel option for visitors that don't piss in public and actually spend more than a couple of dollars here.
No sympathy whatsoever for those attempting to live off of Chinese tour groups and the misery they bring.
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