Taiwan Hotel

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Geographical Convenniences

Taiwan is a land where bustling modern cities are always congested with people and automobiles. The 36,000 square kilometer wide island constitutes a Mass Rapid Transit or “MRT” system, highways and freeways, two international airports with over fifty airlines, fifteen domestic airports with five domestic airlines, six international harbors, and a modern railway system, providing frequent and convenient passenger service to over 20 million Taiwanese.

At the heart of the island in the northern part of Taiwan lies the city of Taipei – the country's center for trade and development. Due south of Tainan city in southern Taiwan is the city of Kaohsiung, the island's second largest city and largest international port, which is considered the gateway for international ports. The country's global economic activity especially towards the Asia Pacific market has promoted her as the ideal location for multinational enterprises to set up their headquarters from which to manage their operations in the Asia Pacific region

Island of Numerous Attractions

Taiwan has an exotic culture, a complete range of Chinese cuisines, beautiful scenic spots, magnificent arts, hospitable people, and state-of-the-art facilities for holding meetings and various business events, thereby making the island a great and ideal destination for business travelers. With its highly convenient transportation, excellent foods and hotels, businessmen traveling to Taiwan can conduct their business more effectively and enjoyably while exploring the island's numerous attractions, such as classical Chinese-style landscaping and architecture, traditional festivals, museums that dwell the world's biggest collection of Chinese art treasures, national parks with breathtaking waterfalls and towering cliffs, fantastic shorelines and fascinating rock formations, saltwater hot spring or “ocean” spa believed to be one of only three in the world, and many others.

Taiwan Tourism Year

The tourism industry is seen as one of the most important industries in Taiwan and is considered the indicator of the country's economy. In fact, the government has declared the year 2005 as the Taiwan Tourism Year, and is planning to organize an exposition in 2008.
With the aim to make Taiwan as the “island of tourism” and to encourage foreign investors to invest on various travel activities, restrictions on certain investment policies are being eliminated. Moreover, the Executive Yuan has come up with a “Traveler Double Added Plan” in which over NT$75 billion shall be invested to increase the number of tourists in Taiwan. With the traveler plan, it is expected that the amount of visitors shall increase to as much as 5 million. The value of output in tourism by 2010 is anticipated to grow up to US$6,591 billion and share 11.6% in the global GDP.