Taiwan seeks more tourists from Indonesia

Regional competitors, decline in mainland visitors push more diverse approach

20240222 Taiwan tourism story (4)

The Raohe Street Night Market in Taipei is one of many attractions enticing foreign visitors, including from Indonesia. (Photo by Randy Mulyanto)

RANDY MULYANTO, Contributing writer

TAIPEI -- Taiwan is looking to Indonesia as an increasingly important source of tourists as it strives to diversify the sector now that visitors from mainland China have dramatically declined after years of political tensions and the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to Taiwan's New Southbound Policy, launched under President Tsai Ing-wen's administration in 2016, travel and tourism is part of the self-governed island's people-to-people strategy, with Indonesia -- Southeast Asia's largest economy and most populous nation with more than 270 million people -- being one of 18 countries targeted.

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