SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Sinan County’s Purple Island, 400 kilometers south of Seoul, have been designated by the United Nations as one of the world’s best tourism villages. The UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) held the Best Tourism Village award ceremony at the general assembly held in Madrid on Dec. 2. Among 170 applications from [...]
DOHA, Qatar, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Qatar Tourism has launched a new international multi-media campaign to drive forward the country’s tourism goals and cement its ambition to welcome more than six million visitors a year by 2030. The campaign features nine unique, engaging key chain characters designed to introduce travellers to the destination. Under the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — “Feel the Rhythm of Korea Season 2,” a Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) series of videos promoting Korean tourism, has surpassed 100 million views on YouTube. As of Friday morning, eight video episodes of Feel the Rhythm of Korea had amassed a total of more than 105 million views. The [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite a prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, tourism on the southern resort island of Jeju has recovered this year, but there has been a clear sign of polarization by business type. The Jeju Provincial Government and the Jeju Tourism Organization conducted an analysis of credit card sales generated within the province, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) said Monday that it had set up a virtual space within a game to allow the MZ generation in China to experience what it’s like to travel to South Korea. “Audition,” a popular mobile game in China, is a rhythm game with more [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — For Kwon Ji-young, a 41-year-old office worker, traveling overseas has been an annual ritual that allows her to completely take a break from the heavy workload of her daily life. But since she canceled her planned 10-day trip to Austria in April last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, [...]
JEJU, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the fourth wave of COVID-19 plaguing South Korea, the monthly number of visitors to the southern resort island of Jeju is expected to top 1 million for the fourth consecutive month in July, industry data showed Thursday, indicating an unstoppable tourism fever among locals. According to the data [...]
JEJU, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju Island attracted more than 1 million tourists this month alone, industry data showed Monday, as the southern resort island raised its anti-COVID-19 social distancing measures by one notch to Level 2 on the same day to cope with growing local transmissions of the coronavirus. According to the data [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeju Island, South Korea’s most popular holiday destination, appears to be increasingly favored by locals as an alternative to overseas travel amid the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, a report indicated Thursday. The report released by the state-funded Korea Culture and Tourism Institute (KCTI) showed that domestic tourism to the southern [...]
JEJU, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The provincial government of Jeju Island, South Korea’s most popular vacation destination, is facing a dilemma as tourists and residents both are showing higher negative perceptions toward Jeju’s tourism boom. In particular, tourists are increasingly dissatisfied with the island’s expensive prices, while Jeju residents are unhappy with the inconvenience [...]