SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite Jeju Island’s tourism industry being at risk due to the coronavirus outbreak, many consumers are voicing discontent due to the island’s poor tourism services. Netizens are blaming the island’s tourism industry for unreasonable prices, unfriendly workers and low quality customer service. “There is a virus in Jeju Island [...]
JEONJU, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has selected Jeonju and four other locations as ‘capital cities’ for the tourism industry. Jeonju welcomed the result, confident that the project’s support in building world-class infrastructure for tourism and attracting foreign tourists en masse will boost the economy of the region. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea announced a package of policy measures, including the expansion of a visa-free stay program, on Thursday to help the country’s flourishing tourism trickle down to smaller regional provinces. The measures were discussed in a government meeting on strategies to promote regional tourism held in the southern city [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Three K-pop idols, including members from boy band NU’EST, have joined a tourism promotion campaign to walk fans and YouTube users through major Korean tourist spots. Two NU’EST members, Hwang Min-hyun and Ren, as well as the soloist Ha Sung-woon joined the video campaign operated by Seo Kyung-duk, a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Koreans staying at hotels and tourist inns in Japan halved in August from a year earlier, data showed Thursday, amid boycott campaign against Japanese products stemming from bitter feuds over trade and history. The Japan Tourism Agency said the number of South Koreans at such [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Nine in 10 K-pop fans would like to visit South Korea in the future, a survey showed Monday, highlighting K-pop’s positive impact on the local tourism sector. In a survey of 12,663 people in 111 countries who identified themselves as K-pop fans, 89.8 percent of the respondents said they [...]
MANILA, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Ctrip Co-founder and Executive Chairman James Liang today met with Philippines Secretary of Tourism Bernadette Romulo-Puyat. The pair discussed areas for collaboration ranging from destination marketing to strategies for improving customer service and safety for travelers to the Philippines and the wider South-East Asia region. The Philippines is an [...]
OITA, Japan, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Ctrip.com International, Ltd., Asia’s largest online travel agency, today signed an agreement with Oita tourism bureau to cooperate in the promotion of inbound tourism to the region. Oita Tourism Bureau is the first municipality in the Kyushu region to sign an agreement with Ctrip. In 2017, 4.9 million [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The sentiment of boycotting trips to Japan in response to the Japanese government’s retaliatory economic sanctions is growing in South Korea. With the popularity of Japan, the top tourist destination among South Koreans, fading, the possibility of a boost in domestic travel is also being discussed among industry watchers. [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of South Koreans are taking an early vacation in June to avoid the traditional summer vacation week between the final week of July and the first week of August. Hana Tour, a South Korean tourism agency, said that demand for oversea travel has increased among South [...]