SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese tourists are canceling hotel reservations following Beijing’s decision to ban sales of tour packages in retaliation for South Korea’s deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system on its soil, industry sources said Thursday. Ibis Budget Ambassador, located in a busy shopping district of Dongdaemun in Seoul, said [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s tourism industry is on alert as China has set out to prevent its people from traveling to Korea in protest against Seoul’s deployment of a high-tech U.S. anti-missile battery, industry sources said Friday. On Thursday, Beijing told major travel agencies in the country to stop selling tours [...]
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. 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. 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 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The government will work to develop what it called tailor-made tour programs that will meet the various tastes of tourists from China and other countries, the tourism ministry said Friday. The new programs to be developed will target individual tourists or small groups, according to the Ministry of Culture, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – In a series of what are being seen as retaliatory measures over Korea’s decision to deploy an American THAAD missile battery, the Chinese government recently rejected a request from South Korean airlines to operate charter flights between the two countries, adding to previously announced orders to cut down the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Efforts to use product placement to advertise tourism in Seoul on Chinese and Taiwanese television programs are paying off. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government, ten Chinese (and Taiwanese) TV programs that featured different sites around the capital in accordance with agreements made with local broadcasters have attracted some [...]
BEIJING, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and China have wrapped up their “Visit Korea Year 2016″ campaign in Beijing in a ceremony overshadowed by a diplomatic feud over Seoul’s missile shield plan. South Korean Minister of the Culture, Sports and Tourism Cho Yoon-sun and China National Tourism Administration Chairman Li Jinzao presided over [...]