SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Both wealth and age have become deciding factors in determining lifestyle after retirement. The number of ‘active seniors’ –those can afford to enjoy their favorite things given comfortable financial circumstances – is rising, and this trend is changing travel patterns, overseas travel in particular, according to an April 18 [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will revoke the licenses of tour operators that lure Chinese travelers with cheap, low-quality package tours to address growing complaints about substandard programs, the tourism ministry said Tuesday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism unveiled a series of measures to tighten regulations on tour agencies specialized in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A record number of people traveled through Incheon International Airport, South Korea’s main gateway, over the Lunar New Year’s holiday that ends Wednesday, the airport said. This year, the holiday lasted five days, including the weekend, prompting a large number of people to travel at home and abroad. Between [...]
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, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has imposed a travel ban on some areas of the Philippines following a series of violent crimes against its nationals there, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday. Starting next Tuesday, South Koreans will be banned from visiting or residing in four regions of the southern island of Mindanao [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire)– Osaka has turned out to be the place the most Korean people visited during the first half of the year. According to the Hotel Price Index developed by Hotels.com, the online hotel reservation site, Osaka ranked first as the tourist attraction most visited by Koreans from January to June. Hong [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) – With the return of the vacation season, ‘11th street‘ announced they would be holding a special promotion for travel packages until August 9. The ‘Silkroad Desert Camp’, where you can experience the lives of Mongolian nomads, costs 2,036,100 won; the ‘Ice Field Parkway’, where you can experience Canadian glaciers, [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Among the Koreans, Chinese and Japanese citizens that travel abroad, it was revealed that Koreans traveled most frequently, Chinese spent the most money and Japanese went to faraway places most often. Visa card reported the results of its ’2015 Visa Survey on Travel Plans’, in which 13,603 people from 25 [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreigners who had travel plans in Korea are increasingly canceling their reservations. According to the Korea Tourism Organization on June 3, the number of tour program cancelations jumped 180 percent from 2,500 on June 1 to 7,000 on June 2. The number of hotel reservations for July and August [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – As smartphones are increasingly used to check the weather or view maps on a trip, the rising number of applications for travel information is waiting for being approved for patents. The Korean Intellectual Property Office announced on August 21 that the number of patent applications of travel apps was 49 [...]