JEJU-DO < invest Korea

According to Yonhap News,

Subsidies will be granted to domestic and foreign travel agencies which run chartered planes at foreign cities where regular direct flights don’t ply to Jeju.

Jeju Province said on March 18th that the benefit is designed to achieve its goal of attracting 1 million foreign tourists this year.

Travel agencies operating more than two regular charter flights a week will be given the subsidy of KRW 3.5 million for 200 or more passengers per flight, KRW 3 million for 151 ~ 199 passengers, and KRW 2.5 million for 150 or less passengers.

The subsidy of KRW 5 million will be doled out for a flight when they run chartered planes four times a month or less.

The Province plans to promote the support towards domestic and foreign airlines and travel agencies and to devise joint marketing strategies along with Jeju Tourism Organization.

Jeju Province expects that this new incentive will help increase the number of chartered planes plying between Jeju and foreign cities which currently have no regular flights and thus attract more foreign tourists.

Tourism Policy Division Director O Jeong-hun of Jeju Province said “we will conduct a satisfaction survey of foreign tourists who use chartered flights to take complementary measures and improve services.”

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Source: Yonhap News (March 18, 2011)

**This is an English translation of a Korean news article.