Dongshin University Department of Tourism Management, 'Fair Travel' Planning at Goheung Farms Gains Attention

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Gwan-woo] Students majoring in Tourism Management at Dongshin University are drawing attention for their efforts to revitalize the local economy by discovering and planning ‘fair travel’ content through visits to farms and experience centers in Goheung, Jeonnam.

According to Dongshin University on the 5th, 35 students from the Tourism Management Department have been divided into five teams and have been directly visiting coffee farms, woodworking experience centers, blueberry farms, yuzu farms, and ecological experience villages in the Goheung area since last September to plan fair travel content.

Fair travel is a form of travel that uses accommodations or restaurants operated by local residents, reduces the use of disposable products to protect the environment, provides economic support to local residents, and minimizes environmental damage caused by tourism development.

The fair travel content planned by Dongshin University Tourism Management students for Goheung includes five themes: ‘Goheung-gun Gwaryeok-myeon in My Arms’ (woodworking experience), ‘Untact Era, Eco-friendly Village Fair Travel’ (rural village experience), ‘Korea’s No.1 Yuzu, Goheung Yuzu’ (yuzu farm experience), ‘Post-COVID-19 Rural Healing Travel’ (blueberry farm experience), and ‘Local Coffee No.1, A Moment to Pause in Goheung’ (coffee farm experience).

The students plan to promote Goheung fair travel by producing each content as experience videos, card news, etc., and uploading them on the Goheung County website, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook.

They also intend to contribute to the tourism industry and local economic revitalization in the Goheung area by actually selling fair travel products through travel agencies.

Park Kyung-yeol, head of the Tourism Management Department at Dongshin University, said, “We will discover and promote fair travel products utilizing the region’s comparative advantage resources such as islands, sea, and rural areas to increase income for local farms and contribute to the recovery of the local economy. We will continue to take the lead in planning and promoting rural experience tourism.”

Meanwhile, since 2017, the Tourism Management Department at Dongshin University has been operating the Jeonnam-type Glocal Tourism Professional Human Resources Development Project Group with support from Jeonnam Province to train tourism professionals tailored to the Jeonnam region.

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