Tours of Three Gorges popular in Taiwan

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 ◆ Tours of Three Gorges popular in Taiwan

Tour packages to Three Gorges, located on China's longest waterway, the Yangtze River, are being sold well in Taiwan. Central China's Hubei Province, for example, has registered a 645.6 percent increase, year-on-year, of tourists from Taiwan.

According to the Tourism Bureau of Hubei, where part of the Three Gorges site is located, this tour has been a hot item for Taiwanese tourists since they began their tour of the mainland in1989.

With the original features and famous landscape about to give way to the changes associated with the construction of the massive dam project, large numbers of tourists are rushing to the Three Gorges to get a final look. More than 190,000 tourists from
Taiwan have visited the Gorges over the past eight months.

Since all of the boat tours on the Three Gorges have already been booked for September and October by European, American and Japanese travel agencies, Taiwanese agencies have resorted to promoting winter tours and tours for 2003.