Mayor: Check Out theTulip Show at Shilin ResidencePost date：2019-02-27
Updates：2019-02-27
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On February 21, Mayor Ko Wen-je participated in the opening ceremony of the 2019 Shilin Residence Tulip Show held at the Shilin Residence, themed When Two Lips Touch. He pointed out that the 16-day inaugural tulip exhibition drew 530,000 people last year to the former garden abode of Chiang Kai-shek in the Shilin suburbs.
Although this year’s edition will last only 11 days, the long holiday weekend around 228 Memorial Day may help reach similar numbers of visitors. Ko encouraged the people of Taiwan to take advantage of the holidays and the fair weather to come and admire the tulip exhibition at the Shilin Residence.
Mayor Ko highlighted the three principles that underpin events organized or supported by the Taipei City Government. The first principle is internationalization: let Taiwan walk into the world, let the world see Taiwan. The second principle is public-private partnership: wherever it stages an event, the city government involves the surrounding shopping districts and communities. The last principle is commercialization, to which he has given much thought recently: nearby businesses should profit from events, and it should revitalize their very local economies.
A case in point, Ko noted, is New Year's activities, when 700,000 people gather at City Hall Plaza. Each person spending NT$ 1,000 adds up to NT$ 700 million (USD 23 million). Taipei’s large-scale events (defined as 5,000 people and more) have been inventoried, and research is on-going as to how these events can be leveraged to stimulate large-scale micro-consumption to benefit small and micro-scale entrepreneurs and vendors. This research and policy has been underway for two years.
Lastly, the mayor noted that the tulip is the national flower of the Netherlands. He thanked Mr. Guy Wittich, Representative of the Netherlands Trade and Investment Office, and Mayor Osamu Natsuno of Tonami City, Toyama Prefecture, Japan for their attendance and contributions. The Tonami delegation had sent local tulip cultivars ahead of time as well as its cute tulip park mascots.
Although this year’s edition will last only 11 days, the long holiday weekend around 228 Memorial Day may help reach similar numbers of visitors. Ko encouraged the people of Taiwan to take advantage of the holidays and the fair weather to come and admire the tulip exhibition at the Shilin Residence.
Mayor Ko highlighted the three principles that underpin events organized or supported by the Taipei City Government. The first principle is internationalization: let Taiwan walk into the world, let the world see Taiwan. The second principle is public-private partnership: wherever it stages an event, the city government involves the surrounding shopping districts and communities. The last principle is commercialization, to which he has given much thought recently: nearby businesses should profit from events, and it should revitalize their very local economies.
A case in point, Ko noted, is New Year's activities, when 700,000 people gather at City Hall Plaza. Each person spending NT$ 1,000 adds up to NT$ 700 million (USD 23 million). Taipei’s large-scale events (defined as 5,000 people and more) have been inventoried, and research is on-going as to how these events can be leveraged to stimulate large-scale micro-consumption to benefit small and micro-scale entrepreneurs and vendors. This research and policy has been underway for two years.
Lastly, the mayor noted that the tulip is the national flower of the Netherlands. He thanked Mr. Guy Wittich, Representative of the Netherlands Trade and Investment Office, and Mayor Osamu Natsuno of Tonami City, Toyama Prefecture, Japan for their attendance and contributions. The Tonami delegation had sent local tulip cultivars ahead of time as well as its cute tulip park mascots.
