The number of mainland visitors to Taiwan ＂avalanche＂： ＂the worst in ten years＂

　　Cctv newsAccording to the data released by the Taiwan authorities recently, the number of mainland visitors to Taiwan decreased significantly in September. The avalanche of land passengers is gradually showing its impact on all walks of life on the island. A spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said that the number of land passengers has greatly decreased, and the responsibility lies entirely with the Taiwan authorities.

　　In September, the number of land passengers decreased, and the number of tourists to Taiwan increased for 15 years or reversed.

　　Taiwan Province’s China Times No.28 quoted data from Taiwan authorities as saying that in September this year, the number of mainland visitors to Taiwan was only 118,000, a sharp decrease of 46.8% compared with the same period last year. The media on the island pointed out that since August this year, the mainland has suspended the pilot of 47 urban residents’ individual travel to Taiwan. In August, the number of mainland guests declined slightly, and the sharp recession in September obviously made people feel the effect of the ban. Bloomberg pointed out that since 2003, the number of tourists received by Taiwan Province has increased for 15 consecutive years — — But this year, with the sharp drop in the number of land passengers, this situation may be reversed.

　　Ahong, a residential operator in Kenting.What our tourism industry wants is tourists, whether they are from Taiwan Province or the whole Southeast Asia. The most important thing is whether we want land passengers or not.

　　Kenting homestay operators shouted:We want Luke!

　　In the middle of this month, a homestay operator in Kenting shouted "We want land passengers" at an event held by Korean Yu, a candidate of Kuomintang 2020, which aroused media attention.

　　Ahong, a residential operator in Kenting.You don’t know how "powerful" our Cai government is. It has a way to return all the savings I have earned from my hard work for five or six years in just two or three years.

　　Taiwan Province Zhongtian News Channel reporter: Ahong’s B&B is located near the third nuclear field. In the past three years, it has lost more than NT$ 3 million, so he decided to close the business at the end of this month.

　　Luke doesn’t come, it’s hard. Taiwan Province tour guide takes part-time delivery.

　　Ahong’s B&B was full for ten months in a year when the booking rate was the highest, but now it is losing money every year and forced to withdraw from the B&B market. Judging from a series of recent reports in the island media, the mainland stopped free travel, which in turn led to a decrease in the number of group guests — — This is undoubtedly a major blow to the tourism industry on the island.

　　Put on your coat, helmet, start the car and get ready for work — — Mr. Ye’s work of delivering takeout food is absolutely a last resort. His job is a tour guide, specializing in taking land passengers.

　　Mr. Ye, the tour guide of Luke GroupI didn’t have time to rest before, but now almost all of them are resting and have no work. I used to see the plane off in the morning and pick it up in the afternoon, but now I’m completely waiting for news.

　　The number of group guests has also decreased, and the income of tour guides in Taiwan Province has shrunk dramatically

　　According to Mr. Ye, since August, the number of land passengers has been decreasing. His travel agency has a total of 350 tour guides, and only 40 of them have barely left the group, which is not enough. In the past, there were 3-4 groups working in a month, and the Luke Group went around the island for eight days, with strong consumption and no problem in earning six figures a month; But now it’s a good situation to take a group in two months, and the income has also decreased sharply. Mr. Ye’s family is old and small, and he faces the dilemma of living beyond his means.

　　Tour guides who have been in the "cold winter" station for ten years take opening a network to get a car as their main business.

　　Some tour guides work part-time to deliver takeout food, while others start online car rides — — Mr. Fu, 37, has ten years of experience as a tour guide. In the face of the cold winter of the industry in recent months, he chose the online car as a part-time job, working 12 hours a day, but his income is still not as good as in the past. He revealed that in the past month, he was able to take three Luke groups and earned NT$ 150,000, but now his income has plummeted to just over NT$ 20,000, and he may return to zero in the future.

　　Mr. Fu, the tour guide of Luke GroupIf there are many groups in our group, we don’t need a car to pull guests there. This is our current situation. This decade’s career is the worst year.

　　In order to support his family, today’s Mr. Fu can only take opening a car as his main business, but the tour guide has become a sideline.

　　The decrease in passenger flow has directly affected not only tour guides, but also the retail industry.

　　Taiwan Province TVBS TV reporterThe Japanese beauty shop was shocked by the news of layoffs. The Taipei Labor Bureau confirmed that the industry had submitted a notice of severance, and it is expected that 35 people will be laid off from September to October.

　　Taiwanese media: the third largest drugstore in the island laid off employees.

　　According to TVBS TV, Japanese medicine shop is the leader of Japanese drugstores on the island and the third largest drugstore in Taiwan, with a total of 60 stores. Since mid-October, news of its planned layoffs has been coming out.

　　Japanese medicine shop ownerAfter an annual assessment, in fact, this is originally within the scope of appropriate manpower adjustment, and it will definitely have some influence in the land passenger part.

　　Visiting Ximending Drug Store: There are more clerks than customers.

　　Japanese medicine shop is located in downtown Taipei — — A store in Ximending. Taiwanese media described the store as "more shop assistants than customers."

　　There are only three beauty shops left in Taipei’s "Beauty Street"

　　The number of land passengers has been greatly reduced, and it is not only Ximending that has been hit — — Dadong Road, Shilin Night Market, was once called "Beauty Street". At one time, there were seven beauty shops, but now there are only three.

　　A large number of tour buses sold 128 cars and only one car was left.

　　TVBS TV reported that it may be more and more difficult to see the scenes of Luke shuttling through major scenic spots in Taiwan Province — — Under such circumstances, even the tour bus operators "raised the white flag". A travel agency that used to be a big tourist bus in Kaohsiung gradually resold 128 tourist buses in the face of the reluctance of the Luke Group to come to Taiwan Province again, and now there is only one left.

　　Kaohsiung tour bus operator Jiang QixingFree travel is gone, then the whole group is zero, so this time it hurts the most, and it has lost nearly 5 months.

　　Taiwan Affairs Office: The responsibility for the reduction of the number of land passengers lies entirely with the Taiwan authorities.

　　Ma Guang Xiao, a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said earlier this month that the number of mainland visitors to Taiwan had fallen sharply, and the responsibility lay entirely with the Taiwan authorities.

　　Ma Xiaoguang, spokesperson of Taiwan Affairs Office.The Democratic Progressive Party authorities are constantly clamoring for "Taiwan independence" activities, constantly inciting hostility towards the mainland, worsening the atmosphere of cross-strait exchanges, hurting the feelings of mainland compatriots, and it is impossible not to affect the mainland people’s willingness to travel to Taiwan.

　　In order to boost tourism and related industries, Cai authorities tried to stimulate people to spend on the island through subsidies and other means.

　　The International Monetary Fund lowered Taiwan Province’s economic growth rate this year and next.

　　On the 15th of this month, the International Monetary Fund released the autumn report on the world economic outlook for 2019, in which the economic growth rate of Taiwan Province this year and next was revised downwards: the report predicts that the economic growth rate of Taiwan Province this year will be 2.0%, which is 0.5 percentage points lower than the spring report; Next year’s growth rate will also be lowered to 1.9%, with a reduction of 0.6 percentage points.

　　Expert Lai Yueqian:The cross-strait trade volume has not decreased, thanks to the friendly environment of the mainland, and Taiwan Province’s economy has fallen into a vicious circle, and the Cai authorities should take full responsibility.