According to the Hong Kong China Commentary Agency, the mainland tourist group zero impact on the Kaohsiung jewelry industry chain that relies on tourists. The ZETA Jetta Group diamond store cooperated by Taiwan and Hong Kong has been locked with an iron door. Zhang Zhenzong, general manager of Jetta Jewelry, said in an email interview with the China Commentary Agency on the 10th that there has been no mainland delegation since January 31 of the lunar year, and now with the epidemic prevention policy of the Cai authorities, cross-strait flights have been greatly reduced, and although the company retains basic manpower, the details of the relevant company's operation or future business direction are not convenient to disclose.
Located on Zhongzheng Road in Kaohsiung City, Jetta Jewelry has a single point business area of 2500 pyeong, known as the first in Asia, and is the leader of the "four major jewelry stores" in Kaohsiung City, with a market share of more than 30% in the past and the champion in Taiwan. Opened in 2008, the company expanded its operations from diamonds to watches, souvenirs, corals, and gemstones, covering popular sightseeing areas such as Taipei City, Hualien, Taitung, and Kaohsiung. In 2014, it bought two star-rated hotels in Kaohsiung to join the operation, but since 2016, cross-strait exchanges have broken the chain, and the mainland delegation has been greatly reduced. It is understood that jewelry stores have exceeded 1,000 groups per month from the past peak, and by 2018 and 2019, there were only more than 300 groups per month, and the number of visitor groups was "waist chopping and waist chopping".
The high mountain tea and other stores next to the jewelry store also pulled down the iron door, because there were no land visitors.
On the morning of the 10th, the reporter of the China Commentary Agency actually visited and found that the Jetta jewelry store has been locked with an iron door, and Wang Zhiqiang, the administrator of the building next door, said that the number of land customers has been reduced since 2018, and there is no tour bus stop after the lunar year this year, and the entire Zhongzheng Road no longer has the phenomenon of the past tour bus returning to the blockage, and the surrounding shops selling fruits and tea have long pulled down the iron door.
Wang Zhiqiang told the China Commentary Agency that in the past, the business of these jewelry stores was super good, and there may have been a hundred tour buses parked in one morning, causing the locomotive riders on Zhongzheng Road to scold while riding bicycles, but now the door is full of birds, and the traffic is much smoother, highlighting the fact that the one-stop operation of land guests themselves is the first to be affected by cross-strait relations and the epidemic.
Cross-strait exchanges and sightseeing have started in 2008 to drive a lot of sightseeing, and more jewelry salesmen have benefited from cross-strait exchanges to grab money and buy houses in high-end residential areas, but now affected by the epidemic and land-based customers, jewelry stores have gradually tightened layoffs.
Bodeli, another Kaohsiung company specializing in luke jewelry business, closed on October 19 last year, with locomotives parked in front of the gate.
At present, only jetta and Huanyu remain in the four major jewelry stores in Kaohsiung, the rest such as Vincent Paul, Baldwin, etc. have long been closed, Vincent Paul is located on the first floor of the Kaohsiung Dream Era, but the owner absconded in the middle of the money last year, resulting in employees not receiving salaries and suing the court, the lawsuit is still in progress; as for Baldwin Jewelry, it is located next to the Dayuan Department Store on Zhongshan Road, but it also closed on October 19 last year, and its hundred employees were dispatched, and many people are receiving unemployment benefits from the Labor Bureau.