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S. Korea Looks to Cruise Lines to Promote Tourism

Written: 2017-05-29 18:12:15Updated: 2017-05-29 18:54:02

S. Korea Looks to Cruise Lines to Promote Tourism

South Korea will invite officials of ten foreign cruise lines to promote the domestic tourism industry, which is reeling from a Chinese ban on tours to the country over the deployment of a U.S. THAAD antimissile system.

The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said on Monday that it is holding the “2017 Korea Cruise Port-Sales in Seoul” on Tuesday and Wednesday at a hotel in the capital city.

The ministry plans to attract two million cruise tourists this year. However, it may be a tough goal to achieve as cruise ships departing from China have canceled 380 stopovers to South Korean ports this year since Beijing implemented a group tour ban for South Korea on March 15th.

Last year, over one-point-nine million tourists visited the country aboard cruise ships, 91 percent of whom were Chinese tourists. 

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