Lai Fengwei, head of Penghu Hotel Association General Assembly, calls for plastic reduction.

Lai Fengwei, head of Penghu Hotel Association General Assembly, calls for plastic reduction.

Lai Fengwei, head of Penghu County, said when attending the first general meeting of the 18th Penghu Hotel Business Association on the 30th of last month that the two-and-a-half-month Penghu International Maritime fireworks Festival attracted 320000 tourists and created 1.8 billion tourism output values. both hotels and hostel operators can feel the obvious growth of tourists. Lai Fengwei, the county magistrate, hopes that hotel operators will have the courage to voice out the remarks made by those who oppose fireworks and tourism growth on the Internet. And support the county government policy, cooperate with plastic reduction, become a qualified environmental label hotel.

County Mayor Lai Fengwei said that this year, the Penghu International Maritime fireworks Festival was successfully transformed, with bright fireworks and drones, and the number of visitors and tourism output value reached an all-time high, but some people on the Internet opposed the festival, believing that fireworks affected the environment, and some people thought that the growth of the number of tourists had caused inconvenience to people in Penghu. If hotel operators do not speak out to support the continuation of the festival, the suspension of fireworks will have an impact on Penghu tourism.

County Mayor Lai Fengwei said that since July 1, operators of public departments, public and private schools, department stores, shopping malls, and chain fast food stores are not allowed to provide disposable plastic straws for domestic users, and the county government has also listed plastic reduction as the next policy priority. He called on hotel operators to cooperate with the policy, reduce the use of disposable plastic products and waste reduction, and become qualified environmental protection label hotels through energy-saving and water-saving measures. Reduce the impact of tourism on the environment and ecology.

▲ Penghu Hotel Association General Assembly County Mayor Lai Fengwei calls for plastic reduction