Taichung International Flower Carpet Festival concludes, attracting 1.72 million visitors in total

The 2017 Taichung International Flower Carpet Festival came to a successful close on the 7th. According to statistics from the Taichung City Government Tourism and Travel Bureau, nearly half or more of this year's visitors came from other counties and cities, and the 16-day exhibition period attracted a total of 1.72 million visitors, breaking last year's record of 1.46 million. In addition, to welcome the "2018 Taichung World Flora Exposition," which will open on November 3 this year, 1,103 potted herbaceous flowers from the flower carpet festival venue were specially given away to visitors on the 7th, inviting the public to take part in the long-awaited Taichung World Flora Exposition.

The Taichung City Government Tourism and Travel Bureau said that this year's flower carpet festival took "Listening to the Sound of Flowers Blooming" as its theme and served as a warm-up for the Taichung World Flora Exposition. During the exhibition, visitors generally said that the main flower carpet's "Mountain Cherry Blossoms Blooming" kinetic music box was deeply impressive, and it also attracted many children eager to take photos with the flower expo mascots Laihu and Omi Ma on the hillside.

The on-site agricultural specialty products marketing area also actively promoted Taichung's high-quality and safe vegetables and fruits, flowers, and processed goods and other agricultural specialty products. During the 16-day exhibition period, sales amounted to 12.2 million yuan; in addition, the food marketing area's turnover was also nearly 31.5 million yuan; the Tourism and Travel Bureau also estimated that the flower carpet festival as a whole could create about 1.1 billion yuan or more in tourism output value.

The Taichung City Government Tourism and Travel Bureau said that the herbaceous flowers planted for the flower carpet festival will be plowed under as green manure after the flowering period ends. In addition, of the nearly 100,000 potted herbaceous flowers, besides the 1,103 pots given to visitors, the rest will also be collected by local agencies, schools, and neighborhoods to beautify public spaces, extending the beautification benefits of the herbaceous flowers.