During this series of events, Daegu City and Gyeongsangbuk-do Province actively promoted the “Daegu-Gyeongbuk Tourism Year 2020” project to increase the number of tourists visiting the Daegu-Gyeongbuk area. In addition, this program also has the meaning of launching promotional cooperation projects to attract more visitors from the Southeast Asian market.
The series of promotional events with the main activity being the program “Roadshow introducing Daegu-Gyeongbuk tourism” was held at the outdoor stage of the Youth Cultural House on May 21. This Roadshow program was opened by a vibrant performance from the group D-Crunch - a newly debuted K-Pop group from Korea, followed by a series of interesting activities such as "Answering trivia questions about Daegu-Gyeongbuk tourism", "Interacting with fans of the group D-Crunch" and the experience activity "Writing Korean names on traditional fans"...
In particular, the program also had the presence of Mr. Kwon Young Jin - Mayor of Daegu City and Mr. Yoon Jong Jin - Governor of Gyeongsangbuk-do Province, directly interacting and introducing to the people of Ho Chi Minh City about the tourism potential of the Daegu-Gyeongbuk area.
After the Roadshow program, the "Daegu-Gyeongbuk Tourism Introduction Seminar" was held at Lotte Legend Saigon Hotel with the participation of guests who are representatives of Vietnamese travel companies, airlines and press units.
Within the framework of this workshop, Daegu city and Gyeongsangbuk-do province will join the Korea Tourism Organization in Vietnam to sign a Memorandum of Cooperation with four typical travel companies in Vietnam, namely Vietravel, SaigonTourist, HanoiRedtours and Fiditour, to promote the construction and development of tourism products to Daegu-Gyeongbuk, thereby attracting tourists to visit this area.
In recent years, thanks to the explosion of the Korean Hallyu wave, the development of themed tourism products and the diverse changes of the tourism market, the number of Vietnamese tourists to Korea in general and to the Daegu Gyeongbuk area in particular is still increasing.
The number of Vietnamese tourists traveling to Korea in the first 4 months of 2019 reached about 170 thousand people, an increase of about 32% compared to the same period in 2018. Currently, there are also Vietnamese and Korean airlines operating direct flights connecting major cities in Vietnam (Hanoi, Da Nang) with Daegu city, helping to connect stronger exchanges in terms of tourism between Vietnam - Daegu Gyeongbuk region in particular and between the two countries Vietnam - Korea in general in the coming time.
