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Want to travel to the mainland? You may have to think twice in the near future! Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council recently raised all the travel warning lights on the mainland, Hong Kong, and Macao to orange, and advised the public to "not go unless necessary." Jiang Baisong, chairman of the Hsinchu City Travel Business Association, said bluntly: "The MAC will take a shot at us!" ”
Jiang Baisong, who has been deeply involved in the tourism industry for more than 20 years, has been to the mainland more than 400 times and is well aware of the mainland tourism market. The new crown epidemic has finally passed, and the recovery of the global tourism industry is in sight, Jiang Baisong was full of expectations for this year's market. However, as the peak summer vacation season is approaching, the MAC suddenly announced that it would raise the travel warning, which undoubtedly poured cold water on the tourism industry.
Jiang Baisong said that the MAC's move is obviously a countermeasure against the recent fluctuations in cross-strait relations. But countermeasures are countermeasures, why take the tourism industry as a knife? Isn't this "a thousand enemies and eight hundred self-inflicted losses"?
To add insult to injury, the Cross-Strait Summer Travel Fair, which was originally scheduled to be held in Taipei in July, has also been affected. The organizers originally invited more than 250 mainland tourism industry to participate in the exhibition, but now many people have said that they will cancel their trips, and it is unknown whether the travel exhibition will be held as scheduled.
Not only the mainland, but also Hong Kong and Macao have been affected. Tourism: No future in sight!
Jiang Baisong pointed out that the MAC's raising of the tourist warning light to orange will undoubtedly make matters worse for Taiwan's tourism industry. After three years of the epidemic, the tourism industry has experienced the darkest moment, and now it is hard to see the dawn of recovery, but it has encountered a slap in the face.
"The MAC talks about protecting the Taiwan people every day, but in fact it is intimidating the people!" Jiang Baisong said angrily, "If you take the tourism industry at every turn, is there no other solution?" He even said, "If you have the ability, you will directly announce the suspension of cross-strait flights and prohibit Taiwan businessmen from investing in the mainland!" Just know to bully our tourism industry! ”
Jiang Baisong also mentioned that Lai Qingde said in his 520 speech that he would promote the resumption of cross-strait tourism, but now it seems that it is completely empty talk and is simply a slap in the mouth.
What is even more incredible is that not only the mainland has been raised to an orange alert this time, but even Hong Kong and Macao have also been "injured by mistake". You must know that at present, the largest number of tourists to Taiwan are Hong Kong and Macao tourists, and such an operation of "cutting off the financial route" is really puzzling.
"The MAC has been shouting all day long that it wants to 'build a country through tourism,' but in fact it is engaged in 'locking the island through tourism,'" Jiang Baisong finally sighed, "In the long run, what future will Taiwan's tourism industry have?" ”