“Bijie Hotel Discount” Korean media tracks and investigates Korean tourists’ travel in China

With the rapid development of China's economy, the number of Chinese outbound tourists has increased significantly. High-spending tourists from China are changing the landscape of world tourism. South Korea also receives an average of more than 1.5 million tourists from China every year. According to analysis by industry insiders and introductions from tourist attractions, this number will hit a record high this year, reaching more than 2 million people.

SBS TV station broadcasted the current affairs program "News Tracking the Chinese, Are We Second-Class Tourists" at 11:15 pm on the 27th? ” will reveal the treatment that Chinese people, who have become the world’s largest tourism market, receive when traveling in South Korea.

The program team took a Chinese group of tourists to experience South Korea and analyzed some problems. In South Korea's travel schedule, some travel agencies only take tourists to visit tourist attractions that do not charge tickets, or take tourists shopping all day long. The accommodation is an ordinary hotel in the suburbs of Gyeonggi Province, far away from Seoul. The food was tasteless and the words were untrue, once again disappointing Chinese tourists who yearned for Korean food after watching the hit drama "Dae Jang Geum". The program team said: Most of the Chinese tourists we met were dissatisfied with traveling to South Korea. In this regard, experts pointed out that the problem is that in recent years, a large number of low-price travel agencies have appeared to carry out low-price dumping tourism. At the same time, the program team also visited how South Korean local self-government organizations develop tourism projects for Chinese tourists, and how neighboring Japan prepares to attract Chinese tourists.