Yeosu City Goes All Out Operating 'Comprehensive Tourism Task Force' During Golden Holiday Period

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Yeosu City, Jeollanam-do (Mayor Kwon Oh-bong) has organized a comprehensive tourism countermeasure team and started its operation on the 30th of last month to create an environment where both citizens and tourists can safely coexist, in preparation for the increase in tourists visiting Yeosu as social distancing measures are eased.

According to the city on the 1st, following the government's announcement to ease social distancing measures, the city decided to strengthen quarantine responses at major tourist facilities and resolve inconveniences throughout the city in anticipation of the gradually recovering tourism demand and the upcoming golden holiday season.

The comprehensive tourism countermeasure team will operate from the 30th of last month until November 15 and is composed of 15 teams including the situation team, citizen inconvenience countermeasure team, traffic countermeasure team, food hygiene countermeasure team, public restroom countermeasure team, and waste management countermeasure team.

In particular, this year, in response to the increasing number of tourists following the opening of the Yeosu?Goheung land and island bridges, a new ‘Jobal·Jeokgeum Observatory Park Countermeasure Team’ has been established. The team will focus on cracking down on illegal business activities such as street vendors, providing portable restrooms, maintaining park cleanliness, and ensuring convenience to thoroughly resolve visitor inconveniences.

Additionally, in line with the ongoing social distancing during this golden holiday, special quarantine measures have been prepared. From the 24th of last month until the 5th of this month, the city plans to continuously monitor tourist facilities for visitor temperature checks, mask-wearing recommendations, social distancing practices, staff mask-wearing, availability of hand sanitizers, and frequent disinfection of frequently touched facilities such as handrails.

Moreover, banners encouraging compliance with personal hygiene rules and participation in social distancing to overcome COVID-19 have been produced and posted at 27 major tourist sites to actively encourage participation from both citizens and tourists.

A city official stated, “Quarantine measures require cooperation between public and private sectors. For public facilities, the city regularly conducts direct disinfection, temperature checks, mask-wearing guidance, and social distancing instructions. Private sectors, such as amusement facilities, also purchase necessary supplies and do their best in quarantine efforts. We ask tourists visiting Yeosu to continue practicing personal hygiene rules such as wearing masks as social distancing is still in effect.”

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