In addition to private entrepreneurs abandoning their hide-bound attitudes and moving forward hand in hand to develop the market, the Executive Yuan's plan to double the number of foreign tourists was already on track last year with an estimated investment over the next six years of almost NT $ 80 billion and a yearly target for visitors to Taiwan in 2003 and beyond of three million, up from 2.6 million of previous years.
除了民間業者捐棄成見，攜手共同開拓市場外，去年開始，行政院的「觀光客倍增計劃」也已上路，預計六年內投入近八百億預算、今年觀光客來台人數目標，將從往年的兩百六十多萬人次左右增加到三百萬人次。