61), bad weather and intensive news coverage about a coronavirus outbreak in China contributed to a decrease in the number of visitors to freeway service areas during this year’s Lunar New Year holiday, the Freeway Bureau said yesterday. Despite the decline in the number of visitors and revenue, Liu said that several freeway service areas outperformed their peers during the holiday. Taichung’s Cingshuei Service Area opened a new Japanese food court on the third floor, which generated NT$4.82 million during the holiday, or 11.8 percent of the service area’s revenue over the holiday, he added. The revenue generated at the 14 service areas last year totaled NT$4.13 billion, up 1.6 percent from 2018, bureau data showed. The top three freeway service areas by revenue growth were the Shiding Service Area in New Taipei City (9.55 percent), the Siluo Service Area in Yunlin County (5.68 percent) and the Sinying Service Area in Tainan (4.61 percent), the data showed.

Source: Taipei Times February 04, 2020 15:56 UTC