SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s global ranking in tourism competitiveness has jumped to 19th this year, backed by an improvement in market openness and infrastructure, a report showed Tuesday. The global ranking of Asia’s fourth-largest economy moved up 10 spots in 2017 compared with two years earlier, tagging along with top tourist [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The tourism industry on South Korea’s resort island of Jeju remained relatively sound in March, despite worries about a serious economic setback from China’s travel package ban to its neighbor amid a diplomatic standoff, industry sources said Wednesday. The number of tourists who came to Jeju Island was 1.25 [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese travelers’ preference for South Korea plunged over the past year, a survey showed Tuesday, apparently from the tension between the two countries over the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system. A poll by Ctrip, a leading online travel services agency in China, ranked South Korea 16th in [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul and its neighboring districts Incheon and Gyeonggi are teaming up in an all-out effort to attract foreign tourists from countries like Taiwan and India, as part of efforts to revive tourism amid the recent Chinese economic retaliation over South Korea’s deployment of a THAAD missile defense system. As the [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Diversifying South Korea’s repertoire of visitors amid continued threats from China, the Korea Tourism Organization is planning to attract 1.2 million tourists from Muslim countries this year, up from what was roughly 980,000 in 2016. Last year’s number was a 33-percent increase from 2015. Of the visitors, 740,000 were [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s tourism needs to revamp itself to reduce its dependency on China and grow into an industry that creates more added value, experts said Sunday, amid rising tension with the neighboring country over the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system. Local tourism is expected to suffer a major [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has stepped up efforts to overhaul its dependence on China for its tourism trade by shifting the focus to other Asian countries to cope with the fallouts triggered by the stationing of an advanced U.S. missile defense system here, sources said Friday. The country’s tourism is bearing [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean travelers are increasingly wary of China as their destination, with anti-Korean sentiment rising among the Chinese over the planned deployment of a U.S. missile defense battery in South Korea, industry and public officials said Wednesday. Lately, a growing number of Korean middle and high schools have canceled [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of businesses in the content, tourism and retail sectors said they are suffering from the ongoing spat between South Korea and China over the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system, a survey showed Sunday. According to the survey conducted on 597 firms in those sectors by [...]
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 [...]