SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korea’s tour agents are forecast to post better earnings this year as a sharp rise in outbound travelers offset a fall in the number of foreign visitors in the wake of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in the country, according to market watchers Friday. The MERS outbreak [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean tourists to Japan has hit an all-time high this year as the yen’s continued weakness makes travel to the neighboring country cheaper, industry data showed Sunday. A total of 2.86 million South Koreans visited Japan in the first nine months of the year, up [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Officials from 35 big travel agencies in the U.S. will set off on a ‘Korea Fam Tour’, to investigate the current status of tourism in Korea. The Korea Fam Tour is a joint venture of the LA branch of Korea Tourist Service, the American Branch of Asiana Airlines and [...]
SEOUL, Aug.12 (Korea Bizwire) – In order to revitalize the national tourist market and domestic economy that are withering from the effects of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak, the ‘Korea Grand Sale’ will take place from August 14 to October 31. Officials say that the sale will be the largest in scale since the [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon said Sunday he will visit Beijing in early August to promote South Korea’s tourism industry hit by the MERS virus that has claimed 36 lives since May. “I will try to help revitalize the tourism industry depressed by MERS and normalize the tourism industry as soon as [...]
JEJU, Apr. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — More visitors are coming to Jeju to get some exercise. According to the Jeju Tourism Association, the number of visitors to Jeju for sporting activities between January and March 2015 was 406,451, which was a 16.3 percent increase compared to the same period last year. Their share among all [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign tourists have picked the unfriendly shopping environment and price gouging as the biggest inconveniences of travelling in Korea. In addition, taxi services are still dissatisfying to foreigners in Korea. According to the Tourism Complaints Center run by the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO), there were 888 complaints raised by foreign visitors [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – As the aftermath of the capsized ferry Sewol incident strikes hard Korea’s tourism industry, the tourism and transportation industries anguish over massive cancellations of reservations. According to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, based on surveys conducted by the Korea Tourism Association and the Korea Association of Travel [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 28 (Korea Bizwire) – For those foreign tourists who want medical services in Korea, the Korean Tourism Organization (KTO) plans to run a “Concierge Service” that picks them up at the airport to designated medical facilities. From March this year, KTO will begin the full-fledged service at the Medical Tourism Information Center [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Have you ever seen a bunch of “love locks” in Seoul’s N Tower that were hung and locked by so many couples who want their love last forever? Or seen a café on a Han River bridge featured on a drama where a couple shared their lovely eye contacts? [...]