TOUR packages to Three Gorges, on China’s longest waterway the Yangtze River, are selling well in Taiwan.

　　Central China’s Hubei Province has registered a 645.6 percent year on year increase in tourists from Taiwan.

　　According to the Tourism Bureau of Hubei, where part of the Three Gorges is located, this tour has been a hot item for Taiwanese tourists since they began tours to the mainland in 1989.

　　With the original features and famous landscape about to give way to the changes associated with the construction of the massive dam project, large numbers of tourists are rushing to the Three Gorges to get a final look. More than 190,000 tourists from Taiwan have visited the Gorges over the past eight months.

　　Since all of the boat tours on the Three Gorges have already been booked for September and October by European, American and Japanese travel agencies, Taiwanese agencies have resorted to promoting winter tours and tours for 2003. (Xinhua)