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    Culture  >  Hotel & Travel  >  
    Overseas trip reservations for Lunar New Year holiday up 14-15 pct
    Reservations for overseas trips by South Koreans rose by 14-15 percent for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday period compared to the same period in 2017, local travel agencies said Sunday. Hana Tour, the country's No. 1 travel service company, said group tours from Wednesday through Feb. 19 totaled 44,700 people. This is up a solid 15.5 percent from the same six day period l...
    Hotel & Travel | 2018-02-11 15:51
    Airbnb ambitious to supply accommodation for PyeongChang Olympics
    Global lodging platform Airbnb has rolled up its sleeves to ambitiously support the PyeongChang Winter Olympics which begins Friday. In a press conference Tuesday, releasing data gathered ahead of the Olympics, the home-sharing startup announced that the number of bookings for Gangwon Province, where the Olympics will be held, increased by 260 percent.
    Hotel & Travel | 2018-02-07 15:40
    South Korea has a 'Trump' motel with prison cells
    It all started two weeks ago when I typed “Trump” into Daum Map. That led me to the Naju Trump Muintel Facebook page. A “muintel” is an unmanned hotel, where guests check in through machine rather than with a person, intended to reduce costs and maximize guest privacy. This one is alternately called a muintel, a hotel, a business hotel, a motor hotel, a drive-in hotel and a m...
    Hotel & Travel | 2018-02-03 10:32
    Korea Grand Sale benefits tourists during Olympics
    Since 2012, Korea has attracted over 10 million foreign tourists annually with the growth rate rising an average 12.6 percent each year. Around 17,240,000 tourists visited Korea in 2016 alone, the highest number of visitors here ever recorded. To develop the country as an attractive tourist destination, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism founded the Visit Korea Commi...
    Hotel & Travel | 2018-02-02 17:19
    [D-11] The how-tos of Olympic travel- A tale of 3 cities
    PYEONGCHANG, GANGNEUNG _ With 11 days left to the opening of 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, it's soon becoming time for foreign press and tourists to enter the country.
    Hotel & Travel | 2018-01-28 17:04
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    5-star hotels' dilemma: Running unprofitable restaurants to maintain status
    During dinner hours, the Parkview, the buffet restaurant at Shilla Seoul is packed with diners.It is an unusual scene for a restaurant of a five-star hotel amid the race among high-end hotels in the city to open their restaurants. But, hoteliers and experts say the Parkview's success is not what it appears to be.
    Hotel & Travel | 2018-01-25 18:21
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    Hotel & Travel | 2018-01-25 18:13
    Seoul and Incheon hotels offer promotions to celebrate the year of dog
    Many hotels use the Chinese zodiac as a marketing tool, producing private-brand product or service packages associated with the year's zodiac animal to reach out to potential guests.Hotels in Seoul and Incheon have prepared interesting packages in celebration of 2018, known as the year of The dog, man's most beloved animal.
    Hotel & Travel | 2018-01-25 18:03
    Places to visit in Gangneung, another winter Olympic city
    The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics are up in three weeks and around 190,000 people are expected to visit Korea during the global sporting event.
    Hotel & Travel | 2018-01-21 17:30
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