Tour Taiwan Year 2008-2009 Goes to New Delhi

To empower Tour Taiwan Year 2008-2009 and to invigorate and broaden visitor sources, ways to develop tourists from emerging markets have become a defining issue. India, situated in South Asia, is one of those potential-rich emerging markets selected by our government as a priority-objective to tap. Hence the Taiwan Visitors Association (TVA), appointed by the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, will be sending a delegation to India this year to initiate tourism, helping the overall promotional efforts to expand this sector. Stephan Chang, President of Pacific Asia Travel Association Taiwan (PATA), will head this particular delegation organized by the Taiwan Visitors Association departing for New Delhi on September 14, comprises of members and officials from the Ministry of Transportation and Communications' Tourism Bureau, Golden Foundation Tours Corp., Edison Travel Service Co., Ltd., Gullivers Travel Service Co., Ltd., Howard Hotel and China Airlines. A Taiwan Tourism Workshop is scheduled for September 15 at the Grand InterContinental New Delhi Hotel, and the delegates are expected to attend the PATA Travel Mart in Hyderabad on September 16 ~ 19, before returning to Taiwan on September 21. Mainly India’s tourism and travel sectors and the local media are invited to events designed to champion Taiwan’s tour products, enhance Taiwan’s tourism image, and to build up international awareness and name recognition for the Island, as well as to foster insights to the demands of the India tourism market, in forms of meetings, dialogs, product seminars, and a banquet. In addition to the preset promotional agenda, participating delegates would also be reaching to their local travel-related counterparts including aviation companies, hotels, travel agencies and the Indian tourism organs, according to their respective marketing objectives, thus maximizing the synergy effect produced. Under the guidance of the Tourism Bureau of the MOTC, this delegation organized by the TVA together with the foreign representative offices of the Tourism Bureau and China Airlines’ India Branch Office, shall enable Taiwan’s extensive tourism resources and cultural diversifications powered by China Airlines’ three-direct-services-to-New-Delhi-per-week platform, to develop India’s rich market potentials, improve contact between counterparts, and be implementing bilateral collaborations, to attract Indian visitors to tour Taiwan.

Source: http://www.sarkaritel.com/news_and_features/september2008/12tour_taiwan_delhi.htm
New Delhi, September 12, 2008