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Hop aboard with a tasty boxed meal

One of the fun things about a train trip is eating boxed meals or snacks while enjoying the view. With the anticipation and excitement of a train ride, train meals offer a different dining experience...

Updated : 2013.04.26 20:27

Hard-core hiking on Yosemite backcountry adventure

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, California (AP) ― A few loose, fist-sized rocks tumbled by as we hiked down a steep mountain pass over unstable terrain, off trail deep in Yosemite’s wilderness. We tightly ...

Updated : 2013.04.26 20:27

BTO offers special deals on KTX to Busan

The Busan Tourism Organization offers big discounts on hotel accommodation and a free city bus tour to those who book KTX train tickets from Seoul to Busan. The promotional package, available from Ap...

Updated : 2013.04.26 20:26

KTO publishes medical tourism guide book

The Korea Tourism Organization has published a guidebook that reveals prices of medical treatments at clinics and hospitals in Busan. The 150-page guidebook offers information on a total of 80 medica...

Updated : 2013.04.26 20:26

150 candidates pass first round for Australia’s ‘Best Jobs’

A total of 150 applicants from 35 countries have made it through to the first stage of Tourism Australia’s “Best Jobs in the World” competition with candidates submitting video entries from as far as...

Updated : 2013.04.26 20:26

Mother & Daughter package at The Westin Chosun Seoul

The hotel presents “Mother and Daughter” packages from April 19 to May 26. The deluxe package includes a one-night stay in an executive deluxe room, free use of the fitness club and sauna, breakfas...

Updated : 2013.04.26 20:25

Children’s Day celebration at Millennium Seoul Hilton

The hotel is hosting special events for Children’s Day on May 5. The hotel will hold a children’s buffet in the Grand Ballroom, serving spaghetti, pork cutlet, pizza, French fries, sausage and more...

Updated : 2013.04.26 20:25

New standard of luxury at Lotte Hotel

The hotel’s fitness and spa center will reopen on May 1 with the latest fitness equipment. Extensive renovations have been undertaken in all the facilities, including the indoor swimming pool, gym, ...

Updated : 2013.04.26 20:24

Locals make travel fun in the Philippines

The Philippines Tourism Department came up with a new tourism slogan, “It’s more fun in the Philippines,” last year. A year later, what do foreign tourists find to be the best part of their trip t...

Updated : 2013.04.24 20:34

[Photo News] Kindness to foreign tourists

Shin Dong-bin (second from right, front row), chairman of Visit Korea Committee, Nam Sang-man (right, front row), chairman of Korea Tourism Association, and about 300 other tourismrelated workers lau...

Updated : 2013.04.23 19:45

Sharp drop in Japanese visitors spells trouble for tourism sector

Korean travel agencies asked for financial help from the government on Monday to assuage their financial difficulties amid a sharp decline in the number of Japanese tourists to South Korea due to thr...

Updated : 2013.04.22 20:16

Industrial railroads reborn as tourist attraction

In times past, trains served as the backbone of the nation’s economic development, delivering freight and coal to inland cities. As the coal industry declined and other forms of transport came into ...

Updated : 2013.04.19 21:10

Lotte Hotel to manage Tashkent hotel

Lotte Hotel announced on Wednesday that it signed a management outsourcing agreement with Tashkent Palace Hotel in Uzbekistan, which will be renamed Lotte City Hotel Tashkent Palace. Located 8 kilome...

Updated : 2013.04.19 20:41

KTO releases Seoul walking tour mobile app

A guided tour of major tourist attractions in Seoul is now available at tourists’ fingertips with the release of a mobile application on 16 places popular among foreign tourists. The application nam...

Updated : 2013.04.19 20:40

U.S. tourist faces trial in Turkey over ‘stones’

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ― An American tourist who collected stones during a six-day beach holiday with his wife was briefly detained in Turkey and faces trial for attempting to smuggle historical artifa...

Updated : 2013.04.19 20:40