SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of South Koreans are choosing to visit their family or friends rather than staying at hotels or resorts during their travels as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage on. Consumer Insight, a local market research firm, reported that ‘family or friend’s home’ comprised the largest share [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The culture ministry on Wednesday decided to halt its discount coupon program aimed at promoting domestic travel in light of the resurgence of new COVID-19 clusters centered on the greater Seoul region. The decision to suspend the scheme, part of the ministry’s 90.4 billion won (US$76.2 million) project to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The new coronavirus outbreak has given a big boost to domestic travel here amid disrupted air travel. But for some vacationers, visiting tourist attractions or using lodging facilities could still be the last thing they want to do. Against this backdrop, a new non-contact travel trend has gained traction [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Goh Dong-wan, a 34-year-old office worker based in Seoul, had a plan to go to Europe for his honeymoon after his wedding on April 11. But the once-in-a-lifetime trip, which he prepared last year, was scrapped as the novel coronavirus pandemic has disrupted overseas flights and prompted European countries [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — As the coronavirus pandemic continues to emphasize the importance of social distancing, car camping, or auto camping as it is commonly referred to in South Korea, is rising as a new travel trend. Anyone with a car can go auto camping without having to purchase expensive gear or equipment. [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is in talks with China to increase the number of flights to the country to 10 a week mainly to meet travel demand from businessmen, the transport ministry said Sunday. Korean airlines currently serve three routes from Incheon to Chinese cities and plan to resume flights on [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign tourists to South Korea stayed shorter and spent less money in 2019 than the previous year, a government survey showed Tuesday. International tourists stayed an average 6.7 days in South Korea last year, down 0.5 from the previous year, according to the survey of 16,000 tourist arrivals taken [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) said Tuesday it has partnered with Ctrip, China’s leading online travel agency, to promote and sell tourism products in South Korea. KTO, South Korea’s state-run tourism agency, said it will co-host the “Super Boss Live Show,” a live commerce event, on Wednesday with Ctrip, [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — While oversea travel has become all but impossible due to the coronavirus, South Korean’s top choice of travel destination when the pandemic ends is Southeast Asia. TMON Inc., one of South Korea’s major e-commerce operators, conducted a survey of 946 customers, 60.5 percent of whom picked Southeast Asia as [...]
SUWON, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — According to a recent survey, the most popular accommodation type for domestic travel has changed from pensions to hotels since the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The survey of 1,000 people conducted by the Gyeonggi Research Institute indicated that hotels were preferred by 35.7 percent of the respondents, [...]