SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — With quarantine restrictions being lifted for incoming vaccinated travelers to South Korea, more people are gaining interest in books about foreign travel. Kyobo Bookstore reported a 28.5 percent sales increase for books about traveling overseas between February 25 and March 24. The government lifted quarantine restrictions on incoming travelers [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of South Koreans in their 20s and 30s are interested in buying eco-friendly travel packages even if they are more costly. Accommodation booking app Good Choice conducted a survey of 700 customers in their 20s and 30s, 45.3 percent of whom were willing to purchase eco-friendly packages even [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Single-person travel is becoming increasingly popular. According to the Korea Tourism Organization, an analysis of BC Card Co.’s credit card transaction data showed that travel consumption by single-person households accounted for 14.6 percent of all tourism-related consumption in the country last year, up by 5.5 percentage points from the [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL) on Wednesday unveiled a virtual reality (VR) video designed to make viewers feel like they are driving trains for themselves, through its YouTube channel. The new video is a follow-up to the online travel content that the train service operator released last year. The new [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of travel agencies in South Korea has declined nearly 6 percent over the past two years in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, industry data showed Tuesday. There were 21,231 tour agencies in Asia’s fourth-largest economy as of end-September, down 6.1 percent from two years earlier, according [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Preference for traveling to less crowded or outdoor destinations has grown this year in South Korea amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, a report showed Wednesday. The Korea Culture & Tourism Institute (KCT) compared two surveys — one conducted on 2,061 people from April to May last year and the [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s six major travel agencies cut some 15 percent of their workforce over the past year as travel demand has taken a massive hit from the COVID-19 pandemic, data showed Wednesday. At the end of March, six listed travel firms had a total of 4,268 employees, down 15.4 [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean travel agencies have resumed sales of new overseas travel packages for the first time in more than a year following the COVID-19 pandemic. The move came after the government announced a plan to exempt the 14-day obligatory quarantine requirement for vaccinated travelers entering other countries. Very Good [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Exotic foreign sauces are rapidly gaining popularity among South Koreans online. E-commerce grocer Market Kurly reported a 107 percent increase in sauce sales between January 1 and April 15 compared to the same period last year. Rosé sauce, in particular, saw sales jump by 389 percent, largely led by [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — PetsgoTravel, a local travel agency for pet-owning adventurers, teamed up with regional airline Hi Air Co. to introduce a flight package on Feb. 19 where travelers depart from Gimpo International Airport and tour the skies above Ulleung Island before returning to the airport. Airlines have been coming up with [...]