South Korea aims to attract 350,000 tourists from Russia annually by 2017 by developing tourism programs including medical services tailored to Russian customers, the finance minister said Thursday.
“We will develop tourism programs appealing to Russian travelers, secure expert tourism workers and make efforts to minimize language inconveniences,” Finance Minister Hyun Oh-seok told a meeting of other policymakers.
“Through such efforts, we will push to attract more than 350,000 Russians to South Korea by 2017,” he added.
Russians visiting Korea have been on the rise in recent years. In 2013, the number of Russian travelers reached about 175,000, up 5 percent from a year earlier.
Hyun noted that Russia is the world’s fifth country in terms of spending on overseas travel, accounting for about US$42.8 billion in 2012.
“Demand for medical tourism, in particular, is spiking in Russia,” Hyun said, adding that Korea needs to better capitalize on the growing number of Russian tourists coming for various medical services.
S. Korea eyes 350,000 Russian tourists annually by 2017
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