ASTA Jeju Travel
Destination Expo

KTO welcomes applications for ASTA event and holds "2007 Korea Tourism Conference"

Korea Tourism Organization(KTO) is accepting the applications to take part in the ASTA Travel Destination Expo scheduled to be held on Jeju Island March 25-29. KTO and the Jeju Provincial Administration are joint organizers of the international tourism event together with the American Society of Travel Agents.
KTO said the event will be a turning point for Korean tourism industry to explore the U.S. tourism market in the days ahead. The event will include such programs as the International Tourism Exchange Exhibition, a seminar on international tourism, tourism experience and other various social events designed to help sell Korean tourism products in the U.S. tourism market.
The joint event gives a great opportunity for Korean tourism agents to sell their tourism products and tour packages to attract American tourists to Korea to some 1,000 American travel agents and travel writers coming to the event.
2007 Korea Tourism Conference:
"2007 Korea Tourism General Conference"will be held in Incheon Feb.27-28 organized by the Korea Tourism Organization and sponsored by the Incheon City Municipal Government.
The largest domestic tourism event scheduled to be held at Ramada Songdo Hotel will be participated in by some 800 officers of travel agents and related tourism industry related people.
Under the theme of "Attracting 7 million foreign tourists for 2007,"the participants will discuss various ways to lure that many inbound tourists to the country and listen to foreign tourism experts to talk about the latest tourism trends overseas.
Taleb Rifai, deputy Sec.-Gen. of the U.N. World Tourism Organization(UNWTO) will make an opening speech at the conference on the theme of "Mega Trend in Asia-pacific Tourism Market"to show the flow of changes taking place in the international tourism market. Shinmachi Koji, chairman of the Japan Tourism Association, will hold a special session on the latest trends in outbound Japanese tourism market and prospects.
A Chinese tourism expert will speak on the latest developments in China's tourism market, emerging as the largest tourism market in the world.
Side events of the conference will include business discussions with domestic travel agencies and their foreign counterparts, a seminar for heads of KTO's 27 overseas branches, travel agents and tourism officials of the local autonomous entities. There will also be a meeting of five regional cooperative teams and tourism section heads of the local autonomous entities,
along with a seminar where PATA Korea branch head, and KTO officials will talk about their ideas to attract free individual travelers.
Incheon City will have its own agenda to show off its tourism strategies to introduce notable tourism products in the city by holding free tours for the participants of the conference, a friendly golf event, welcoming dinner for the participants and a seminar on the city's strategies to promote its tourism industry all designed to impress the participants with what the city can offer to tourists.
Any one who wants to take part in the tourism conference can do so by making registration through the conference website (www.ktc2007.org) free of charge. nw

Geumneung Beach

The Baekrokdam (White Deer Lake) of Mt. Halla

A horde of deer

A view of Jeju coastline and other sceneries.

Ko Yong-sam, director-general of Culture, Tourism and Sports Bureau at Jeju Special Self-governing Province