Wando Cheongsando, Development of a Smart Healing Tourism Model with Marine Healing Park Creation

12 Themed Experience Facilities Established, Set to Become a Year-Round Marine Healing Tourist Destination

Wando Marine Healing Park Bird's-eye View (Photo by Wando-gun)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Kyung-pil] Wando-gun, Jeollanam-do (Governor Shin Woo-cheol) announced on the 19th that on the 16th, a kickoff meeting for the basic and detailed design service of the Wando Marine Healing Park, part of the Marine Healing Blue Zone project, was held at the county office situation room.

The Marine Healing Park will be created on a 7,433㎡ site in the Sinheung-ri area of Cheongsan-myeon with an investment of 1.8 billion KRW, and is scheduled to be completed by February 2022. The park will include 12 themed marine healing experience facilities (Smart Pavilion) with marine healing functions, as well as user convenience facilities.

Once the Marine Healing Park is established, visitors for healing purposes, tourists, and local residents will be able to receive marine healing programs based on diagnostic results from the Smart Pavilion, and check data on their health status before and after use, which is expected to play a role in health management and prevention.

Additionally, it is expected to greatly contribute to increasing the number of stay-type tourists using the Marine Healing Park and attracting tourists through branding Cheongsan-do as the ‘Healing Island,’ thereby increasing residents’ income and revitalizing the local economy.

Along with the creation of the Cheongsan-do Marine Healing Park, Wando-gun is establishing a marine healing industry hub throughout the region by developing a Marine Healing Center, Marine Climate Healing Center, and Cultural Healing Center in the Sinji-myeon area, as well as a Marine Healing Experience Center linked with the Coastal Healing Forest in Yaksan.

Bong Jin-moon, Deputy Governor of Wando, stated, “Through the creation of the Marine Healing Park, we plan to overcome the limitations of seasonal tourism focused on natural scenery in Cheongsan-do and develop it as a year-round marine healing tourism model.” He added, “We will actively support the establishment of village enterprises so that local residents can lead the operation of the Marine Healing Park as the main operators of the project.”

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