Prices of package tours to rise up to 40%: travel firms
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By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
People who are planning to travel overseas during the holiday season are expected to pay 20 to 40 percent more for package tours, but they can still find inexpensive travel deals to several destinations, the Travel Quality Assurance Association yesterday told a news conference in Taipei, at which it released a forecast on group tour fees for the first quarter of next year.
Tours to Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia would cost about 20 percent more than before the COVID-19 pandemic, as accommodation, ground transport and flight tickets have become more expensive