SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Travel demand to Japan has exploded in South Korea amid a weak yen and Japan’s easing of virus restrictions, industry data showed Friday. Japan resumed visa-free entry of international travelers in early October, after two years of strict border control to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The Japanese [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Overseas credit card use in November, typically part of the travel off-season, jumped significantly this year, largely due to the quick recovery of interest in foreign travel, data showed Wednesday. Overseas credit card spending at seven card companies reached 1.63 trillion won (US$1.26 billion) in last month, which was [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Japan have agreed to expand the number of flights on the Gimpo-Haneda route to the pre-pandemic level to meet recovering travel demand amid eased virus curbs, the transport ministry said Wednesday. Korean Air Lines Co. and Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea’s two biggest carriers, will gradually [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans’ overseas card spending continued to grow in the third quarter as outbound travel spiked bolstered by eased pandemic curbs, central bank data showed Tuesday. The amount of money spent overseas by South Koreans with cards, including credit and debit cards, came to US$3.81 billion in the July-September [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are flocking to airlines and tour agencies as the Japanese government once again began to accept the entry of Korean travelers without visas on Tuesday. South Korean budget carrier Jeju Air’s reservation rate for flights between Incheon and Narita jumped to 90 percent in October, spiking from [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Demand for travel packages to Japan is rising following the announcement that restrictions on entering the country would be dropped. South Korean tour agency Hana Tour reported a 413.9 percent increase in the average daily number of travel reservations to Japan between Aug. 29 and Sept. 4 compared to the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Travelers from Japan, Taiwan and Macau will be temporarily allowed to enter South Korea without a visa this month, Seoul city said Wednesday. The city has pushed for the visa waiver program in consultation with the culture, justice and foreign ministries, and the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean travelers to Southeast Asia prefer staying in pool villas and those traveling to European countries prefer staying at guesthouses, a poll showed Thursday. The operator of ticket booking platform Yeogi Eottae conducted a survey of 469 app users, 30.2 percent of whom preferred to stay in pool [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — After COVID-19 social distancing rules were lifted, South Korea’s major online travel and accommodation platforms have seen payments break records month after month. Industry tracker WiseApp conducted a survey of Korean consumers over 20 years of age to check the value of payments they had made at online travel [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will add an additional 230 international flights by next month to meet growing demand for travel in the wake of an easing of COVID-19 restrictions, Interior Minister Lee Sang-min said Friday. The addition will raise the number of weekly international flights from 532 in May to 762 [...]