In terms of private sector exchanges, tourists from Taiwan made over 30,000 visits to Palau in 1997. This number fell to a little over 10,000 in 1999, but the ROC still ranks with Japan as one of Palau's major sources of tourist visitors.
而在民間投資交流方面，我國赴帛琉觀光客一九九七年曾高達三萬多人次，雖然九九年減為一萬多人次，但仍與日本並列為主要觀光客來源國。