Gwangyang-si Takes Initiative to Create a Safe Tourism Environment

Published 10 Sep.2021 16:37(KST)

Operation from next week to December after conducting quarantine management staff training
Creating a safe tourism environment and overcoming the COVID-19 economic crisis through job creation

Gwangyang-si Takes Initiative to Create a Safe Tourism Environment

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Heo Seon-sik] On the 10th, Gwangyang City in Jeollanam-do announced that it will launch a support project to improve quarantine and reception systems at tourist sites to create a safe and healthy tourism environment during the prolonged COVID-19 era.

The project is a strategic initiative to promote safe travel by deploying quarantine management personnel at tourist sites and strengthening tourism reception systems, fully funded by the national government.

The city has completed the selection of quarantine and management personnel, conducted basic training on quarantine management, safety prevention rules, and education on the scale and characteristics of tourist sites, and plans to operate the program for four months from next week through December.

Through this project, 21 quarantine management personnel will be assigned to six tourist sites including Baeraldo Island Garden, Baegunsan Natural Recreation Forest, Gubongsan Observatory, Gwangyang Wine Cave & Eco Park, and Jungma Market.

The quarantine management personnel will perform various roles such as guiding visitors on quarantine measures, mask-wearing, and social distancing, cleaning the environment around tourist sites, and promoting Gwangyang tourism.

In particular, with Chuseok approaching, the program will operate throughout the holiday period except for Chuseok day on September 21 to accommodate the expected increase in returning and visiting guests.

The city plans to prioritize hiring unemployed or furloughed workers from the tourism industry and those with experience in related fields to alleviate the difficulties faced by the tourism sector hit hard by COVID-19 and to support overcoming the economic crisis caused by the pandemic.

Park Soon-gi, head of the Tourism Division, said, “With four-digit daily confirmed cases for over two months, we will do our best to ensure the health and safety of citizens and visitors by strengthening quarantine and reception systems at major tourist sites in preparation for the upcoming Chuseok holiday.”

He added, “Amid the ongoing tourism slump, we will prioritize hiring furloughed and unemployed tourism workers as quarantine management personnel to help overcome the COVID-19 crisis.”