Jeju Tourism Organization hosts familiarization tour for Taiwan visitors

연합뉴스 / 2023-03-17 14:31:52

▲This photo, provided by Jeju Travel Organization show the scene of Familiarization Tour. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

SEOUL March 17 (Yonhap) -- In preparation of the upcoming travel season in April, Familiarization Tour took place in hope to host a lot of visitors from Taiwan.

Jeju Island, and Jeju Tourism Organization and Korea Tourism Organization, and T-Way airline, collaboratively addressed on Friday, in order to expand the tourism business Taiwan’s travel agent are currently hosting a Familiarization Tour.

In total of 15 various people including 11 from the Taiwan’s travel agencies and two of the media personal visited Jeju island located in South Korea by using a direct flight.

Visitors will spend in total of 4 days and 3 nights until March 18 participating in a traditional drink making programs, and various traditional shows and performances taking part in various tourist attractions.

Moreover, in order to develop a better tourism packages, visitors will look around 5 star hotels and unique cafes in Jeju in order to provide unique and high quality experiences.

Jeju Tourism Organization will use the opportunity to transform Jeju Island as a destination for cheap get away and focus on building various high quality tourism packages.

CEO of a tour company Boma Travel Services Limited addressed “I am very happy to be able to visit Jeju Island after the strike of COVID 19,” adding “I have participated in the tour in order to come up with various tour packages as many people are excited to visit Jeju Island as restrictions regarding the pandemic has been lifted.”

The number of visitors from Taiwan continued to increase from 2017 where it started off with over 28thousand visitors up until Covid 19 struck the world. Later on visitors started to increase, in 2018 over 51 thousand visitors were counted, and in 2019 around about 87 thousand visitors came to Jeju Island.

After the re-opening of flights by T-WAY and Tiger airlines, on November and December of 2022, over 3000 visitors are visiting Jeju every month.

(This article is translated from Korean to English by Joonha Yoo)

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