Vietnam, Japan surge in reputation as vacationer vacation spot for S. Koreans

As COVID-19 journey restrictions begin to ease additional throughout Asia, extra S. Korean vacationers are eyeing Vietnam and Japan.

South Koreans topped overseas vacationer arrivals in Vietnam in August, in keeping with the Normal Statistics Workplace of Vietnam.

Some 486,000 foreigners traveled to the Southeast Asian nation, of which 173,000 have been from South Korea, adopted by the US and Cambodia.

With practically 1 in 3 guests to Vietnam final month being South Koreans, the determine marks the nation’s rising demand for worldwide journey.

The variety of worldwide passengers in S. Korea reached over 2.1 million in August, up practically 13 p.c from the earlier month.

The determine for worldwide passengers crossed the 1 million threshold for the primary time for the reason that pandemic started in June.

With pre-departure COVID-19 assessments scrapped from Sept. 3 and Japan set to permit nonguided package deal excursions beginning this month, demand for flights and package deal excursions in Japan additionally seems to be rising.

In keeping with the nation’s prime journey company Hanatour, bookings for journeys to Japan jumped fivefold between Aug. 29 and Sept. 4 in comparison with the earlier two weeks.

By Yim Hyun-su ([email protected])