입국자 격리면제 발표에 문닫을 뻔한 여행사에도 볕들었다... 해외여행 예약 ‘폭발’
Vaccinated individuals arriving in South Korea no longer have to self-isolate for seven days.
Still a negative PCR test is required.
This has led to a huge increase in sales of travel-related products and services.
Kim Bo-kyoung zooms in on this phenomenon.
Foreign travel is finally possible again.
As the week-long quarantine-on-arrival measure in South Korea was removed starting Monday,... travelers either on overseas business trips or on vacation say they feel much more comfortable.
"When coming back from business trips, I felt very uneasy because of the quarantine period. Now that it is gone,... I feel much more comfortable going on a trip. I hope to go on a trip to another country during my vacation too."
People's desire to travel abroad can be seen in recent travel package and ticket sales.
According to major travel agencies' recent data,... after the health authorities announced the changes on March 11th to exempt those fully vaccinated from having to quarantine for seven days,... sales of travel packages have soared.
Hanatour says 32-hundred reservations were made for travel packages between March 11th and March 20th.
That is a 93-point-7-percent increase from bookings that were made over the previous ten days.
The Pacific islands of Guam and Saipan were the most preferred travel destinations,... followed by Europe and the Americas.
Bookings for plane tickets to overseas destinations are also on the rise.
73-hundred people booked plane tickets from March 11th to 20th,... which is more than a 60-percent increase from the ten previous days.
Another travel agency Modetour too is seeing similar increase in trip package sales and plane tickets.
Sources say that they expect sales to increase even further.
"We are looking forward to more bookings in the future as preventive measures are being loosened in other countries. Airlines are now reopening regular flights too,... so we are expecting the number of trips overseas to go up."
Travel packages and plane tickets are not the only things enjoying a sales increase.
Emart, a subsidiary of South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Group,... said on Tuesday that it saw a 42-point-4-percent increase on-year in sales of travel suitcases including carriers and portable bags,... between March 12th and March 20th.
Meanwhile,... Incheon International Airport Corporation too is gearing up to welcome travelers,... and is expecting the demand for flights to properly recover starting this July.
Kim Bo-kyoung, Arirang News.
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2022-03-22, 22:00 (KST)
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