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Tainan went to South Korea to participate in the Busan International Travel Fair [Want to See You], which continues to ferment 2023/10/06
KOTFA President Shen Zhongmu personally attended the opening of the Tainan exhibition booth

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Since the opening of the border last year, the number of tourists from South Korea to Taiwan has grown rapidly. In the first quarter of this year, 148,000 people came to Taiwan, making it the number one source country. In order to attract Korean tourists to Tainan, the Tainan City Government Tourism Bureau will participate in the 2023 Busan International Travel Fair (BITF) on October 5 and invites the Taiwan Literature Museum to join them in matching cheongsams with the theme of the 400 ancient capitals of Tainan. To promote cross-temporal travel fun with costumes and literary artistic conception, an interactive game was designed to provide Tainan 400 limited-edition royal guards, Tainan specialty dried mangoes, and a literary postcard set to show Korean tourists the enthusiasm of Tainan’s ancient cultural capital. The response from on-site tourists was enthusiastic, and Korean people wanted to receive the mangoes. Long queues to do it.

Tainan Mayor Huang Weizhe said that the city has seized the excellent business opportunity of the recovery of international tourism and went to South Korea to participate in the 2023 Busan International Travel Fair. Compared with previous international travel fairs, the "Tainan Pavilion" was specially set up to welcome friends and tourists from Busan, South Korea. The industry promotes Tainan tourism. The theme of the Tainan pavilion is based on the recently popular Tainan 400 "Truly Tainan" with the decoration of the Taiwanese drama "Want to See You" that is loved by Koreans, and the latest "Thousand Layers of Taiwan" travel guide launched by the Taiwan Literature Museum The route, through the Tainan Pavilion’s careful design and bright colors coupled with the urban image of an “ancient cultural capital,” makes Tainan’s charm attract the curiosity of exhibitors at a glance.

Lin Guohua, Director of the Tainan City Government Tourism Bureau, said that South Korea has always been one of Tainan's important target markets for promoting international tourism. In view of the post-epidemic overseas travel boom in South Korea, coupled with the high popularity of the Taiwanese drama "Want to See You" in South Korea, this year is particularly Then go to South Korea to participate in the Busan International Travel Expo, the most representative international tourism expo there, to market Tainan tourism to South Korea, and at the same time promote the 2024 Taiwan Lantern Festival in Tainan and the International Orchid Exhibition and other Tainan events. On the first day of the opening of the Korea International Tourism Exhibition, KOTFA President Shen Zhongmu personally attended the opening of the Tainan booth. KNN Busan TV station also came to the Tainan booth for interviews to introduce the diverse charm of Tainan’s ancient capital to Korean tourists, so that more Korean tourists can experience Tainan’s ancient capital first-hand. Enthusiasm; In order to enhance tourism exchanges between Taiwan and South Korea, I also paid a special visit to Director Guo Chengkai of the Busan Office of the Taipei Representative Office in South Korea on October 6. The director said that in 2019, there were more than 500 direct flights per week between Taiwan and South Korea, and tourists from the two countries visited each other. The number of tourists exceeded 2.5 million, setting a record high. Taiwan and South Korea are also each other's third largest source of tourists; last year (2022), the Tainan City Government Tourism Bureau participated in the 23rd "Busan International Travel Fair" (Busan International Travel Fair). Promote the tourism resources and special tours of Tainan, the "ancient cultural capital", to Korean tourists, and organize interactive gift-giving activities on-site, attracting many Korean people, expatriates in Korea and envoys in Korea to visit the booth; on May 17 this year, Gyeongju City Council Lee Dong-hyup The deputy speaker led 9 members to Tainan to visit Mayor Huang Weizhe. Since Gyeongju and Tainan are both the country's oldest and highly developed cities, and they have many similarities, the two sides discussed tourism, security and economic cooperation. With the frequent exchanges between Taiwan and South Korea, the economic and trade relations between the two countries are also very close. They are each other's important trading partners. The exchanges and cooperation between the two parties in other fields have also become wider and deeper year by year. In the future, with the active promotion and intermediary assistance of the Busan Office of the Taipei Representative Office of Korea, we hope to continue to deepen the relationship between the two parties and enhance the exchanges between Taiwan and South Korea in tourism, culture, and economic and trade activities.

The Tourism and Tourism Bureau stated that in order to welcome the Tainan 400 event in 2024 and attract more international tourists to participate in the event, the city government has been carefully operating the international market. During the epidemic, it continued to train tour guides from many countries, actively improved the international-friendly tourism environment, and participated in many events We are ready to bring more and more exciting trips to the ancient capital of Tainan to international tourists through the promotion and advertising of international large-scale travel fairs, charter flight itineraries and 2024 Taiwan Lantern Festival. If you want to know more about the latest Tainan tourist attractions and For events, please continue to pay attention to the "Tainan Tourism Network" and " Tainan Tourism Fan Page ".

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