GWANGJU, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Shinhan Air is introducing Korea’s first airplane tour Saturday, with departures from Yeosu Airport for a view of the Dadohae waters that are part of the Dadohae Haesang National Park. Operating a Cessna Caravan 208B, Shinhan will offer ten tour sessions daily, each lasting roughly 30 minutes, for 59,000 won [...]
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. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2017 Korea Travel Expo kicked off Thursday at COEX for a four-day run, featuring over 300 businesses and organizations related to domestic tourism. This year’s expo marks its 14th anniversary, and will include information on travel content in Korea, traditional and modern, lectures by famous travel writers 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. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced Thursday that it will establish new waterside facilities at Yeouido Hangang Park by 2019. The $170-million park will have a new dock, to accommodate waterway traffic on the Han River, and an observatory, alongside other commercial and cultural facilities for shopping, tourism, and exhibits. [...]
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, 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. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The keyword for the Korea Tourism Organization’s 2017 business plan is “diversification.” In an official announcement Monday, the KTO said it will be targeting tourists from Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas to stray away from its high dependency on Chinese tourists, while offering more tourism content outside of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean Internet giant Naver announced Wednesday the launch of ConA (Context Recognition AI), an artificial intelligence platform that automatically recommends travel destinations overseas. According to Naver, ConA uses deep learning technology and makes use of big data from online tour sites or restaurant information to come up with [...]
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, [...]