Transport ministry to push ‘epidemic prevention tours’By Shelley Shan / Staff reporterThe Ministry of Transportation and Communications is to promote “epidemic prevention tours” from Wednesday next week, when President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) is to start her second term in office, Minister of Transportation and Communications Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) said yesterday. He spoke with reporters after a briefing by contractors managing the station’s floor space, saying that the tours would be the first phase. Photo: Cheng Wei-chi, Taipei Times“We plan to start promoting ‘epidemic prevention tours’ from Wednesday next week and we have been working with travel service operators on a range of tour arrangements,” Lin said. “We also want tourism upgrade program trainees to set the example and show us how to arrange the tours,” he said. Regardless of whether the next phase involves epidemic prevention tours or government-subsidized safe tours, Lin said that the ministry would focus on subsidizing group tours on weekdays, otherwise tourist attractions and hotels would be inundated on weekends.

Source: Taipei Times May 12, 2020 15:56 UTC