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TAIWAN CROSS-STRAITS TALKS TO USHER IN NEW TOURISM ERA.
TAIPEI, Nov 3 Asia Pulse - The second meeting between top negotiators of the two sides of the Taiwan Straits, scheduled for Nov. 3, will mark a new era for Taiwan's tourism, as more direct links between Taiwan and China will be established, the head of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) said Friday.
MOTC Minister Mao Chi-kuo told the opening ceremony of the Taipei International Travel Fair 2008 (Taipei ITF 2008) that amid an economic downturn, that the tourism industry in Taiwan was still seeing growth this year and it would head into a new era, as relations between Taiwan and China reached a milestone with more direct air and sea links between the two sides.
Mao was referring to an upcoming meeting between Taiwan and China's top cross-strait negotiators, in which the two sides are expected to sign agreements on broadening their tourism and transportation links.
Chen Yunlin, president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), will head a delegation of around 60 people on a historic visit to Taiwan Nov. 3-7 to meet with his Taiwan counterpart Chiang Pin-kung, chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation.
They are slated to sign four agreements, including a "Cross-Taiwan Strait Air Links Agreement" and accords on direct shipping and postal links.
Chen will be the highest ranking official from the People's Republic of China to visit Taiwan since the two sides split in 1949 after a civil war.
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