{"id":269192,"date":"2017-04-26T17:04:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T21:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=269192"},"modified":"2020-11-13T15:47:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T20:47:18","slug":"china-crushes-south-korea-tourism-over-us-missile-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/china-crushes-south-korea-tourism-over-us-missile-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"China crushes South Korea tourism over US missile presence"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Excellent and peaceful economic sanction for harboring the huge US arsenal threatening both China and Russia under the disguise of being sent to protect South Korea from North Korea.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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South Korean tourism has been severely hit by a Chinese boycott over the deployment of a controversial US-backed anti-missile system approved by Seoul.
\nIn March, South Korea saw a 40 percent drop in Chinese visitors, according to the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO). Total visitor numbers last month fell more than 11 percent to 1.23 million year-on-year.<\/p>\n

Bookings for stays by Chinese travelers are down 28 percent in the second quarter of the current year against a year earlier, according to the outlook by ForwardKeys, a provider of travel industry data.<\/p>\n

The plunge in Chinese tourism comes after South Korea agreed to install a US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Seoul insists THAAD is a deterrent to possible missile attacks from North Korea. However, Beijing repeatedly expressed concerns over the system, as its powerful radar may penetrate into Chinese territory.<\/p>\n

The Chinese government reportedly banned tourist agencies from selling tours to South Korea following the move.<\/p>\n

Chinese tourists, who are seen as deep-pocketed spenders, accounted for 8 million of the nearly 17 million people that visited South Korea last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s been a big reduction in the number of groups of Chinese tourists in Seoul since the THAAD missile crisis,\u201d\u00a0said Kil Ki-yon, director of Seoul Tiger Bus, a company that takes Chinese visitors on tours of the city, as quoted by CNN News.<\/p>\n

South Korea could stand to lose $9.63 billion in tourism revenue, according to estimations.<\/p>\n

The decline in visitors from China has also hit duty-free shops in South Korea, as the Chinese accounted for about 70 percent of their total sales, according a spokesman from Lotte Duty Free. Sales to Chinese customers have already dropped 40 percent year-on-year since mid-March.<\/p>\n

South Korea has tried to attract more visitors from Japan and Southeast Asia to make up for the losses. However, growing regional tensions over North Korea have diminished a slight rise in the number of Japanese visitors.<\/p>\n

\u201cJapanese tourists are putting off their trips to this country, apparently because of overblown Japanese media reports about tensions on the Korean peninsula,\u201d\u00a0said a KTO official quoted by Yonhap news agency.<\/p>\n

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