The beautiful island so desperate for new tourists it's even helping pay for their flights

Taiwan's capital, Taipei, is a sprawling metropolis (Image: Getty) One country is so keen to attract more tourists it is offering to cough up the cash for their flights. Taiwan is hoping to bring in two million tourists from Japan and China in 2024 by offering incentives to those who make the trip. The country has endured a sharp downturn in tourism numbers after the Covid -19 pandemic.

Prior to the global health crisis, Taiwan attracted 11.86 million international tourists including 2.71 million coming from China and 2.

16 million from Japan. In 2023, Taiwan only had a total of 6.4million international visitor arrivals.

As part of the plan to bring in more visitors, Taiwanese Airlines have agreed to offer a discount of 5,000 Japanese yen (£26). function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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