Completion of Forest Tourism Map Linking '100 Famous Mountains' with Attractions and Food

Index map of locations for the top 100 famous mountains trademarked forest tourism resources. Provided by the Korea Forest Service

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Forest tourism content linking the top 100 famous mountains nationwide with local attractions and food by region has been established in the form of a public basic data (DB).

The Korea Forest Service announced on the 19th that it recently completed the "Top 100 Famous Mountains Forest Tourism Content Discovery Project" in collaboration with the Korea Mountaineering and Trekking Support Center.

The discovery project surveyed locations usable as tourism resources, such as the top 100 famous mountains and nearby forest recreation, healing, and leisure facilities, guesthouses and campsites, mountain village festivals and experiential activities, specialty products, food, natural monuments, wildflowers, and Hwajeonmin sites, based on GPS coordinates, and classified them into electronic files.

Previously, in October 2002, to commemorate the "International Year of Mountains," the Korea Forest Service selected the top 100 famous mountains in domestic forests. However, even after the selection, hiking mainly consisted of simple summit climbs and traverses, and no significant travel content had been activated.

Accordingly, the Korea Forest Service aims to discover diverse forest tourism content of the top 100 famous mountains, link forest and local tourism resources, increase new travel demand, spread a stay-type travel atmosphere, and revitalize the local economy.

This year, the Korea Forest Service promoted the discovery project as part of the non-face-to-face digital government job project, and the Korea Mountaineering and Trekking Support Center was commissioned by the Korea Forest Service to carry out this project.

The discovered public data on forest tourism for the top 100 famous mountains will be disclosed to the private sector through the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's Public Data Portal and the Forest Big Data Exchange starting from March next year.

Jung Cheol-ho, Director of Forest Welfare Policy at the Korea Forest Service, said, "We hope that the 'Basic Forest Tourism Data' to be provided by the Korea Forest Service will lead to new domestic travel routes and tourism product development, helping to revitalize the travel industry and the local economy of mountain villages."

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