The 35 percent appreciation of the New Taiwan dollar in recent years, combined with the boom in domestic real estate prices, has jacked up the consumer price index and scared away many Western tourists. Only tourists from Japan, where prices are even higher than in Taipei, still seem as eager as ever to flock to Taiwan.
近年來，新台幣升值了百分之卅五，加上國內房地產飆漲，使得物價成本也相對提高，這等消費指數嚇走了不少歐美的旅客，唯有物價仍高於台北的日本旅客，來台的遊興仍不減當年。