SEOUL, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean duty-free operators are holding back from expanding their businesses on grim prospects that the intensifying trade spat between South Korea and China over the U.S. anti-missile system will further weigh down sales, industry sources said Sunday. HDC Shilla Co., a latecomer in the local duty-free industry, may [...]
SHANGHAI/SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) – China has instructed travel agencies in the country to stop selling trips to South Korea, sources said Thursday, in what is seen as another retaliatory move against Seoul’s decision to deploy an advanced U.S. anti-missile defense system. According to industry sources in China, the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese tourists have become an indispensable asset for domestic tourism, accounting for roughly 60 percent of all individual travelers to Korea, and over half of all customers at local duty-free stores. But as is the case for all popular tourist destinations, misbehaviors and an apparent lack of respect for [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The drunk passenger that went on a verbal and physical rampage on Korean Air flight in December turned out to be just one of hundreds of examples of illicit activities taking place on commercial flights to and from Korea. Official data compiled by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and [...]
TOKYO, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of Japanese tourists visiting South Korea increased 23.4 percent from a year earlier to 2.30 million in 2016 amid improved relations between the two neighboring countries, marking a reversal from declines for three consecutive years, data showed Monday. According to the Tokyo office of the state-run Korea [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The average growth rate of outgoing tourism from South Korea has far outpaced that of domestic tourism, data showed Wednesday. The number of Koreans who traveled abroad rose by an average annual growth rate of 10.4 percent to 19 million in 2015, from 12 million in 2011, the Ministry [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of Chinese tourists arriving in South Korea during the long Lunar New Year holiday significantly decreased compared to last year, local travel agencies said Wednesday. The number of Chinese visitors opting for South Korea as a tourist destination during the holiday season from Jan. 27 to Feb. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s air passenger traffic reached a new high in 2016 on a sharp increase in international passengers to and from the country amid expanded services of low-cost carriers (LCCs), the transportation ministry said Monday. Air passenger traffic came in at 103.9 million last year, breaching the 100 million mark [...]
Seoul, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Less Chinese tourists opted for Korea as a travel destination during the long Lunar New Year Holiday this year, Chinese media and travel agencies said Sunday. While as many as six million Chinese have gone or will go overseas during the holiday season from Jan. 27 to Feb. 2, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The growth rate of Chinese tourists arriving in South Korea rebounded in December after falls for five months, data showed Tuesday, despite diplomatic tensions between the two neighbors over Seoul’s plan to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defense system. The data compiled by the Korea Tourism Organization showed that [...]