Taipei, Nov. 27 (CNA) The Kinmen County government is offering shopping coupons to visitors as part of efforts to boost tourism in the outlying island group.

From now until mid-January 2017, visitors aged 12 and older who enter Kinmen between Monday and Thursday can collect the coupons at designated locations by presenting their flight or boat tickets, identification and proof of accommodation, the county government said.

The coupons can be used at designated stores.

A total of 50,000 coupons have been prepared, and more than 40,000 of them have been collected so far, it added.

According to the county government, because the period between November and January is the low season for tourism in Kinmen, the county hopes that the shopping coupon program will help boost tourism during that period.

(By Sun Cheng-wu and Y.F. Low) ENDITEM/ls