Gyeonggi-do Resumes Fam Tour After 4 Years... 15 Officials Including Thailand Travel Association Visit Korea

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Gyeonggi Province, in collaboration with Gyeonggi Tourism Organization and Korean Air, will host a "fam tour" (promotional inspection) from the 20th to the 23rd of this month by inviting members of the Thailand Travel Association and media outlets to attract Southeast Asian tourists.

This fam tour targeting the Thai travel industry is the first in four years since 2018. It was relaunched following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions, including the removal of pre-entry COVID testing.

Thailand, the target of the fam tour, is the largest source of visitors to Korea from Southeast Asia, with 570,000 visitors in 2019. It ranks sixth among all countries, following China (6 million) and others.

The fam tour participants include 11 key travel agency officials such as Charoen Wangananont, President of the Thailand Travel Association, and 4 journalists from media outlets including Daily News, totaling 15 people.

On the 20th, they will begin with signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for mutual cooperation and a business-to-business (B2B) consultation session at the Suwon Convention Center. From the 21st, they will experience various tourist attractions in Gyeonggi Province such as the Gwangju Ceramic Museum, Yangpyeong Dumulmeori, Gimpo La Venice Moon Boat, Goyang KINTEX, and Paju Imjingak.

Choi Yong-hoon, Director of the Tourism Division of the province, said, "We expect that local key tourism officials experiencing Gyeonggi Province's tourism resources firsthand and promoting them locally will help revitalize visits by Southeast Asian tourists to Gyeonggi Province. We will continue to strengthen promotional marketing so that tourists from various countries, not only Southeast Asia, can visit Gyeonggi Province."

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