Average daily spending of tourists in Taiwan 2020-2021

According to several surveys conducted among inbound travelers to Taiwan in 2020 and 2021, the distribution of tourists' average daily expenditure changed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Between January and March 2020, around 41 percent of daily expenses were hotel bills. However, during the pandemic, between July and Decemeber 2020, hotel bills took up nearly 54 percent of international tourists' average daily spending in Taiwan and decreased again to 47 percent in 2021. Meanwhile, the proportion spent on food, shopping, transportation, and entertainment dropped significantly in the second half of 2020 and remained low the following year.