Asia's first popcorn-themed tourist factory, Kazi Popcorn, takes you popping into a new experience

Asia's first popcorn-themed tourist factory, "Kazi Popcorn Tourist Factory Park," celebrated its opening on the 1st! Blending an American design style inspired by Hollywood movies and combining education, entertainment, tourism and technology, in addition to its original AI popcorn production process, a small train displays fully automated production line technology, and there is also flying popcorn that presents the complete popcorn production process before visitors' eyes, so that people can enjoy an American-style small town without going abroad, and have fun popping popcorn by hand and experiencing somatosensory interactive games.

New Taipei City Deputy Mayor Wu Ming-chi stated that New Taipei City - leading all local areas nationwide - actively assists factories in transforming toward tourism, providing guidance and subsidies every year and arranging summer bus tour itineraries. In 2020, 100 sessions of New Taipei tourist factory light travel were held, bringing in more than 4,000 visits. By assisting traditional industries in transformation, it has guided the creation of many nationwide unique themes, such as popcorn, Danish bread, eraser stationery, maternity wear, fragrances, condoms, horological science and art, and wound care, among rich business features and types, in order to promote New Taipei's industrial tourism and enhance brand image and business opportunities. Taiwan Smile Food Co., Ltd. expanded its investment in Bali, New Taipei, spending nearly 500 million yuan to purchase land, factories and equipment, and invested 30 million yuan to build the Kazi Popcorn Tourist Factory. It is also near the Bali Ferry Pier, which can increase local employment opportunities in Bali District and a cooperative internship program for baking and catering students, and drive local industrial tourism.

The New Taipei City Economic Development Department stated that New Taipei City has a total of 24 tourist factories and industrial culture centers. Over the past 10 years, it has continuously promoted the industrial tourism guidance and transformation program, and has assisted more than 20 operators in transforming and upgrading, creating a new platform for industrial tourism. In the future, it will continue to guide distinctive factories toward cultural and creative services and brand promotion, raising the average revenue of transformed factories by more than 20-40%, and transforming New Taipei City from a traditional industrial city into a city with the richest industrial tourism resources.