Kaohsiung, Taipei picked for Lantern FestivalLIGHTS UP: A Tourism Bureau committee selected Kaohsiung to host the 2022 and Taipei the 2023 annual festival, which is one of the nation’s major tourism eventsBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporterThe Taiwan Lantern Festival is to be held in Kaohsiung in 2022 and in Taipei in 2023, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications said yesterday. For the festival in 2023, which would be the Year of the Rabbit, the bureau had invited the governments of Taipei, New Taipei City, Keelung and Yilan County to submit plans for the event. The last time that Taipei and Kaohsiung hosted the annual lantern festival was in 2000 and 2002 respectively. The bureau created the Taiwan Lantern Festival in 1990, which has since become one of the nation’s major tourism events. The festival was held in Taipei from 1990 to 2000, and in Kaohsiung in 2001 and 2002.

Source: Taipei Times December 15, 2020 15:56 UTC