SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 1,000 travel agencies in South Korea have gone out of business in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that started to hit the country in late January, data showed Wednesday. The number of tour agencies came to 21,671 as of the end of June this year, down 938, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul metropolitan government said Thursday it will unveil a series of YouTube videos through which global fans of Korean pop culture can experience various aspects of the culture with popular K-pop boy band Seventeen. The series, titled “Seoul Hallyu Staycation with Seventeen,” will be uploaded this Saturday and on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A promotional video of K-pop superstars BTS introducing travel spots in the South Korean capital will go live this week, the Seoul city government said Thursday. While the new coronavirus has put a brake on the global tourism industry, the city government said the video was aimed at “continuously [...]
JEJU, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The coronavirus pandemic is having a significant impact on Jeju Island’s tourism industry. The Jeju City Tour Bus that used to bring groups of tourists to various tourist hotspots on the island saw its number of customers drop by more than 50 percent following the coronavirus outbreak. Luxury hotels, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreigners who traveled to South Korea slumped 97.5 percent on-year in June, data showed Monday, highlighting the drastic impact the new coronavirus is having on the local tourism sector. The number of foreigners who visited the country came in at 36,943 in June, compared with 1.48 [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Tourist arrivals in South Korea nose-dived 99.5 percent in May due to global travel restrictions amid the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Monday. The data from the state-run Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) showed a mere 6,111 foreign tourists visited South Korea in May, compared with over 1.23 million a year [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The southern resort island of Jeju is set to begin a night bus tour this week as part of an effort to revitalize its tourism industry battered by the coronavirus outbreak. The tour bus will run from June 19 to Oct 3, between 6:30 p.m. and 9:20 p.m. once [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tourism revenue slumped to a nine-year nadir in March due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, industry data showed Tuesday. Revenue from inbound travelers reached US$729.8 million in March, down a whopping 67 percent from a year earlier and the lowest since January 2011, according to [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A government poll showed Monday that the global popularity of South Korea as a tourist destination increased for the sixth consecutive year in 2019, thanks to the promotional effects of the country’s globally loved cultural content sector. According to the 2019 poll on the effect of tourism marketing, released [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tourism industry took a big hit from the novel coronavirus in February due to a reduction in both inbound and outbound tourism, industry data showed Thursday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy registered a tourism deficit of US$365.2 million in February, down from $927.6 million the previous month, according to [...]