SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of hotels in South Korea more than doubled during the past seven years amid an influx of visitors from China, government data showed Monday. The number of hotels in the country stood at 1,050 as of the end of last year, up 53.7 percent from 683 in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of Chinese visitors to South Korea is expected to jump more than 25 percent in 2019, boding well for duty-free business operators here, data showed Tuesday. According to the data jointly compiled by the state-run Korea Tourism Organization and Shinhan Financial Investment, the number of Chinese travelers [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retailers are increasingly joining hands with Chinese mobile payment platforms to attract more Chinese visitors as they strive to recover from the fallout from a diplomatic row between Seoul and Beijing, industry sources said Thursday. Shinsegae DF Inc. said it has adopted UnionPay’s QR code payment system [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of inbound travelers from countries other than China is expected to surpass the 10 million mark for the first time this year, the government said Tuesday, as it struggles to diversify the country’s tourist portfolio after being hit hard by a diplomatic row between Seoul and Beijing. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of Chinese people who visited South Korea last month declined 46 percent on-year, the eleventh straight month of decline following the diplomatic row between the two countries over the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system here, government data showed Friday. The tally of Chinese visitors came to [...]
INCHEON, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Incheon is getting busy to prepare for a gigantic group of 6,000 Chinese visitors. According to Incheon city officials, 6,000 employees from Chinese cosmetics company Aurance Group will visit Incheon from March 27 to April 2. The Chinese group will be the largest number of tourists to [...]
SEOUL, Feb.21 (Korea Bizwire) – During the Chinese spring festival, six million Chinese traveled overseas and spent a total of 90 billion yuan on shopping. The products they purchased abroad included expensive luxury items, smart bidets, and electric rice cookers, but surprisingly, most Chinese tourists bought items used in everyday life such as cough syrup, [...]
SUWON, Nov.12 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese tourists are increasingly exploring destinations in Korea other than Seoul and Jeju. There has also been a change in their travel patterns, with a shift from ‘just passing by’ to ‘staying for more than a day’ excursions. As a result, local governments are taking measures to attract Chinese visitors. [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 1 (Korea Bizwire) – As the Chinese economy grows by leaps and bounds, more Chinese nationals go out and travel the world, opening up their wallet generously. Korea has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of this trend, hosting more than 4 million tourists last year from the neighboring country. The number [...]