Ministry of Culture Holds Korea-China-Japan Future Generation Tourism Vision Forum

Ninety young people from Korea, China, and Japan will gather in Yeosu, Jeollanam-do to share their opinions on future tourism.

Night view of Yeosu City.
Photo by Yeosu City

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Tourism Organization announced on the 15th that they will hold the "Korea-China-Japan Future Generation Tourism Vision Forum" under the theme "Traveling Together, Dreaming Together for the Future" in Yeosu, Jeollanam-do from the 16th to 17th.

This event will be held in conjunction with the "2023 Korea-China-Japan Esports Tournament" taking place in Yeosu during the same period. On the 16th, 30 young people from each of the three countries will watch the esports tournament together. Through this, they will consider ways to exchange through new content and directly tour various areas of Yeosu, which has been selected the most times in the nighttime tourism "100 Best Night Spots in Korea."

On the 17th, expert lectures, group discussions, and presentations of tourism vision ideas will be held. Park Sohyun, CEO of the tourism venture "HitchMed," which operates an AI-based multilingual medical platform, will share her startup experience and analyze the growth potential of the Korea-China-Japan medical tourism market. Lee Junghoon, Secretary General of Riot Games Korea, will highlight the value of esports as tourism content, focusing on the experience of hosting the "2023 League of Legends World Championship Seoul."

The young people from the three countries will form teams to discuss expanding tourism exchanges among the three countries and present their tourism vision ideas. Among the presented ideas, outstanding ones selected through expert evaluation and participant voting will be awarded the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award. In the second part of the event, the Korea-China-Japan Future Generation Tourism Vision Declaration Ceremony will be held.

Human exchanges among Korea, China, and Japan reached 30 million annually before COVID-19. According to the Ministry of Justice's foreign entry statistics, as of the end of October, 39.3% of Chinese visitors and 42.8% of Japanese visitors to Korea were in their 20s and 30s, indicating that the youth generation is at the center of tourism exchanges among the three countries.

Yoo Inchon, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said, "Tourism is the core of private exchanges, and the youth generation is at the center of tourism exchanges." He added, "I hope this event becomes a place to showcase fresh and diverse ideas that open a new future for the tourism industry."

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