Visit Korea Committee Activities

2019 Taipei International Travel Fair
The 2019 ITF (Taipei International Travel Fair) was held at the Nangang Exhibition Hall in Taipei for 4 days from November 8th to 11th. Taiwan has been actively engaging with Korea as one of the most important partners in the tourism industry! ITF is attended by more than 60 countries, which naturally includes the Visit Korea Committee! Major travel agencies of both countries have B2B consultations. See the preparations for fruitful business meetings? Many visitors asked about tourism in Korea including the Korea Grand Sale and Korea Tour Card. After the consultation, we took the photo with the journalist from Xin Media (Living & Travel Platform), who had great interest in the Korean tourism packages. She promised to spread the word about the Korean tourism packages to the Taiwanese people. Highlight of this show! About 90 organizations from Korea including local governments, associations, and companies were at the 2019 ITF, which was attended by more than 300,000 visitors. We tried to make the booth as attractive as possible to introduce the Korea Grand Sale to them. The 4 days were truly amazing ones thanks to seemingly endless meetings. We were even worried that the queue of people wanting to take part in our events may disturb the meetings at nearby booths. Clearly, the projects of the Visit Korea Committee drew the interest of so many people! The Visit Korea Committee will keep endeavoring to attract foreign tourists through constant promotion.
Date : 2019/11/11 | Views : 2234
2019 Beijing Winter & Ski Korea Festa
Beijing, China hosted the 4-day Winter & Ski Korea Festa from October 25th to 28th. The Chinese market is one of the most important markets for the Korean inbound tourism industry and a main target of the Korea Grand Sale project by the Visit Korea Committee. It was the chance for the Visit Korea Committee to promote its own projects like the Korea Grand Sale and Korea Tour Card to more than 100 representatives of the Chinese tourism industry who are in charge of designing the packages. Everyone was so attentive, visiting the committee’s booth after the presentation in person; thus suggesting the great interest in the projects of the committee. The attendees also got to share information such as the current status of the Chinese tourism industry and Korean tourism packages at the pre-arranged B2B consultations with the Chinese local tourism agencies. Can you see the staff of the Visit Korea Committee working on the promotion of the projects in the picture? The 2-day B2B event was joined by K-Pop star “Gary” of Leessang. Gary is known to be hugely popular in China, but it was amazing to see him welcomed by so many people at the site! It is the picture of the grand opening ceremony featuring Gary. Right next to the stage is the booth of the Visit Korea Committee where the Korea Grand Sale and Korea Tour Card were promoted to potential Chinese visitors to Korea, with the Twice-a-Day Roulette and Weibo Follow undeniably the hottest events at the booth. The Visit Korea Committee is working hard to attract as many Chinese tourists to Korea as possible! Please keep monitoring us!
Date : 2019/10/27 | Views : 2174
2019 Korea-Vietnam Tourism & Culture Festival
The Visit Korea Committee operated a booth at the “2019 Korea-Vietnam Tourism & Culture Festival” held for 2 days from September 28th to 29th of 2019. The venue was Nguyen Hue Walking Street in Ho Chi Minh City -- let’s find out what the committee did at the Korea Tourism Show as an awesome part of the festival. Ta-da~ Promotional materials for diverse projects of the committee, such as Korea Grand Sale, Korea Tour Card, and Smart Help Desk. The show included many programs such as Instagram event and Yunnori (traditional Korean board game). The lines were incredibly long even though it was so hot and humid. It only shows just how interested all the people were in Korea! The opening ceremony was attended by numerous personalities including Secretary General Gyeong-ah Han of the Visit Korea Committee and Ho Chi Minh Consul General Jae-hun Lim. GFRIEND and SNUPER, two of the hottest K-pop idol groups, added even more heat to Nguyen Hue Walking Street! See you all again in Vietnam!
Date : 2019/09/29 | Views : 2219
2019 Autumn Hospitality Week - Tourist Service Center (TSC)
Autumn days with warm sunlight are best when traveling! Our “Tourist Service Center (TSC)” was operated in the Namsan Mountain, Dongdaemun Gate, and Namdaemun (Sungnyemun) Gate areas for 10 days from September 27th to October 6th in cooperation with the Seoul government. Useful services like on-site interpretation for tourists speaking English, Chinese, and Japanese were provided. Besides the useful services, Yunnori, one of the most popular traditional Korean board game, were also played with intensity! The Korea Tour Card Namhaean Coast, a must-have item for tourists, was introduced as well! It was highly popular among foreigners as the single card provides both public transportation access and tourism benefits. TSC will go wherever places the foreign tourists are! Last but not least, enjoy the site of TSC with the marvelous autumn scenery of Namsan Mountain! See you soon!
Date : 2019/09/27 | Views : 2288
2019 Local government consultation meeting for the Korea Tour Card
September is the month of fruition. Heads of local governments gathered in the middle of September to discuss the Korea Tour Card system. This conference covered the performance of the “Korea Tour Card,” which has been used by more than 470,000 foreign tourists since its introduction in 2017, with the attendees discussing how to promote collaboration to facilitate regional tourism. Check out the photographs from the conference held at Ferrum Tower in Jongno, Seoul. Welcome remarks by Secretary General Gyeong-ah Han of the Visit Korea Committee. Introduction of “Korea Tour Card,” the exclusive transit card system for foreign tourists. It is basically the T-Money transit card but also offers benefits such as discounts and freebie at attractions, cultural hands-on events, shopping, and show/performances so that the owners can have maximum fun while traveling Korea with the card. What's more, they can use the card in future visits to Korea for accessing public transportation nationwide! We also had a “Korea Grand Sale” session, targeting foreigners visiting Korea in January and February of the following year. Korea Grand Sale covers all processes for foreigners visiting Korea, from booking of an airline ticket, accommodations, and shopping to on-site experiences like cultural hands-on events, including some benefits of the Korea Tour Card. The conference was successfully closed with photo-taking with the representatives of local governments. The Korea Tour Card will eventually become a must-have for foreign tourists by expanding partners to offer benefits to them. Of course, the Visit Korea Committee will be there, too!
Date : 2019/09/23 | Views : 2049