{"id":53473,"date":"2017-11-28T06:19:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T06:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=53473"},"modified":"2017-11-28T06:19:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T06:19:41","slug":"china-partially-lifts-ban-group-tours-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/china-partially-lifts-ban-group-tours-south-korea.html","title":{"rendered":"China partially lifts ban on group tours to South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">China partially lifts ban on group tours to South Korea<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">China partially lifts ban on group tours to South Korea:- China National Tourism Administration will allow travel agencies in Beijing and Shandong to resume sales of group tours to South Korea, Yonhap News Agency reported on Tuesday, citing an industry official.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The official said the travel ban would be in place in other regions for now and be gradually lifted depending on the regions, going forward, Yonhap reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Shares rose of companies that would benefit from the lifting of the ban, with Asiana Airlines gaining 3.4 percent and duty free store operator Hotel Shilla up 3 percent. Casino operator Paradise rose 4 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">China had banned all group tours to South Korea since March in the wake of Seoul\u2019s decision to install a U.S.-backed anti-missile system, a move Beijing vehemently opposed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">But a late October agreement by Seoul and Beijing to move past the dispute had boosted hopes group tours may be allowed in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The tour agencies in Beijing and Shandong have, however, been told they should not include Lotte Group\u2019s hotel unit and duty free as part of their travel packages to South Korea, according to the report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Lotte, South Korea\u2019s No.5 conglomerate, has faced a major setback in China after the group provided the land for the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system. Most of Lotte\u2019s hypermarkets in China were shut down after fire inspections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Officials at Korea Tourism Organization and Korea\u2019s tourism ministry said they are checking the Yonhap report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/sourthkorea-china-tour\/china-partially-lifts-ban-on-group-tours-to-south-korea-yonhap-idINKBN1DS0BH<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/china-partially-lifts-ban-group-tours-south-korea.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China partially lifts ban on group tours to South Korea China partially lifts ban on group tours to South Korea:- China National Tourism Administration will allow travel agencies in Beijing and Shandong to resume sales of group tours to South Korea, Yonhap News Agency reported on Tuesday, citing an industry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5470],"tags":[6722,105271,7945,105272,348,6280,3299],"class_list":["post-53473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-china","tag-china-partially-lifts-ban-on-group-tours-to-south-korea","tag-company-news","tag-sourthkorea","tag-south-korea","tag-tour","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}