Wando-gun Offers Healing Through Marine Therapy and Travel Expenses

Visit 5 Wellness Tourism Sites Including Marine Healing Center and Share Reviews on SNS

Spend 100,000 KRW and Receive 30,000 KRW Support in the 'Wando Pool Healing Mission Tour'

Wando-gun, Jeollanam-do, is conducting the ‘Wando Pool Healing Mission Tour,’ which supports travel expenses for tourists to promote tourism.

According to the county on the 21st, the ‘Wando Pool Healing Mission Tour’ is an event that supports travel expenses for tourists who visit five wellness tourism sites in Wando: the Marine Healing Center, Marine Culture Healing Center, Marine Climate Healing Center, Yaksan Coastal Healing Forest, and Cheongsan Marine Healing Park, and then post certified photos with required hashtags on their personal SNS.

Experiencing at least one of the wellness tourism sites is mandatory, and depending on the total amount spent on accommodations, restaurants, cafes, and specialty product stores within the county, tourists will receive support of 30,000 KRW for receipts totaling 100,000 KRW or more, 70,000 KRW for 200,000 KRW or more, and 100,000 KRW for 300,000 KRW or more. The required hashtags are #HaeyangChiyuWando, #ChiyuuiSeomWando, #WandoPool, and #WandoWellness.

Tourists are experiencing seaweed foam therapy at the Wando Marine Healing Center.
[Photo by Wando-gun]

The travel expense support for the ‘Wando Pool Healing Mission Tour’ is provided once a year and is targeted at groups of 10 or fewer tourists from other regions who wish to travel to Wando. Residents of Wando, travel agencies, and groups of 11 or more are excluded from support.

To apply for travel expense support, a travel plan must be submitted at least one day before the trip. The submission method can be found on the Wando-gun website under public notices (No. 2024-256).

After the trip, tourists must share certified photos and the required hashtags on SNS and submit receipts for entrance fees or experience fees at tourist sites, as well as for accommodations, restaurants, cafes, and specialty product purchases.

Applications for travel expense support must be made within 10 days after the trip, and after verifying the eligibility, the payment will be made in the following month based on the application date. The event period runs until November 30, and it may end early if the budget is exhausted.

For more details, please check the public notice or contact the county tourism department.

Oh Hyun-cheol, head of the tourism department, said, “We hope tourists will have a special experience at Wando’s wellness tourism sites, where they can heal their body and mind beyond just eating and enjoying, while also receiving travel expense support, making it a win-win trip.” He added, “We will continue to promote tourism activation by implementing various policies, such as supporting travel agencies that attract group tourists visiting Wando.”

Meanwhile, in the ‘Wando Pool Healing Mission Tour,’ ‘Wando Pool’ is a combination of ‘wonderful,’ meaning magnificent and excellent, and ‘Wando,’ which boasts outstanding natural scenery, abundant food, and diverse tourism resources.

Wando = Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Kyung-pil just8440@asiae.co.kr

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