-Local journalism got together in order to contribute to the activation of local tourism.

The 4th Intl Tourism Show which is being held from Aug. 15th through Aug. 18th at KINTEX Exhibition 1 Hall 3, proved once again that local journalism such as Halla Ilbo Daily newspaper, Chungbuk Ilbo Daily, Kyungbuk Ilbo Daily, Kyungnam Ilbo Daily etc. got together in order to contribute to the activation of local tourism in partnership with the Seoul Diplomatic Corps.

Supervised by Korea Intl Tourism Show 2019 Organizing Committee & Universal Live which has been accmulated many knowhows & experiences during many years in organizing Intl Tourism Shows, in another partnership with its media partner NDNnews(www.ndnnews.co.kr) & its affiliated organiztion Korea Culture Ambassador Friendship Association, this 4th Intl Tourism Show showed off once again that each local journalisms had their strengths for the publiciity to attract local government, local counties including local travel companies in addition to overseas pavilions such as Embassy of Sri Lanka, Embassy of Bolivia, Mongolia Lucky Travel, UAE Duri Travel, to name just a few.

Gorgeous opeing ceremony of the 4th Intl Tourism Show held at the KINTEX Exhibition 1 Hall 3.

At its gorgeous opening ceremony held on 11:00 am, Aug. 16th(Fri.) through KINTEX Exhibition 1 Hall 3, organizing committee chairman Choi Jae-sung urged participants more many brisk international exchanges, adding tourism can serve as most appropriate tool for the such purpose.

Pointing out that for the innovation of Korean tourism industry, it needs to be networknized for the local jounalisms, chairman Kim Yong-koo from Korea Tourism Association said he personally firmly believes that this 4th Intl Tourism Show would be able to contribute to local tourism‘s activation greatly from the such point of view that local jouralism have their edges to publicize each local travel’s character and strengths etc.,

Honduras Amb. Trapero & Sierra Leone Amb. MATTAI(third & first from left) taking part in their cutting ceremony with chairman Choi Jae-sung of the Organizing Committee(third from right).

On behalf of all visiting envoys & senior diplomats, Honduras Amb. Trapero said in terms of rich sources of historic, cultural and natural properties along with the firmly provided tourism related business environment and infrastructure, Korea should be mainstay of world tourism industry. (See the full text of Honduras envoy Trapero’s congratulatory remarks at the end of this article!)

From the Diplomatic Corps., Honduras Amb. Virgilio Paredes Trapero & his spouse, Sierra Leone Amb. Kathos Jibao MATTAI, UAE deputy Mr. Rashed Saeed Al Shamsi, Panama deputy Mr. Diomedes Carles, Fiji Embassy deputy Mr. Joreti Dakuwaqa attended its opening ceremony and looked around the tourism show venues including Rwanda Embassy 1st counsellor Mr. Claude K. Ganza, Guatemala Embassy 1st secretary Mr. Joel Humberto Delgado Samayoa, Cambodia commericial attache Mr. Yem Sophal, Sri Lanka Economic counsellor Ms. Rekha Mallikarachchii, Chile Embassy Economic Department Head Mr. Jose Miguel Sepulveda, Zambia Embassy 1st secretary Mr. Nthemba Kamanga & his spouse, Philippines Tourism Board Seoul Representative Ms. Maria Corazon Jorda-Apo etc.

Chairman Choi Jae-sung of the Organizing Committee looking around the Show venue with VIPs.

The 4th Intl Tourism Show is comprised of domestic pavilion, Intl pavilion, travel product publicity pavilion in addition to world liquor special pavilion, travel book special pavilion, thema travel pavilion etc. so that visitors can experience diverse aspects to get their very useful tips when they want to travel overseas, to say nothing of domestic tours.

As part of stage programs, the 4th Intl Tourism Show provides visitors with very useful tips such as alone travel, travel sharing with families, travel sharing with friends and last but not least unusual trip, according to the Secretariat.

With China Hunan officials, VIPs pose with them in front of its booth.

On the other hand, participating Ambs & senior diplomats had an opportunity to hear Unique Good Company’s success story through its travel seminar after the luncheon, with a title, dubbed as ‘New technology game and tourism’s combination“

Foreign buyers were a total of 15 companies such as Turkey Turali Group, Indonesia Klapa Resort Bali, Azerbaijan Premier Group, China CN Travel Group in addition to domestic 8 companies at home.

The following is a speech delivered by Honduras Amb. Trapero at the gorgeous opening ceremony. -Ed.

Honduras Amb. H.E Virgilio Paredes Trapero congratulatory speech on the occasion of the 4th Korea International Tourism Show 2019 (10:30 am, Aug. 16th, Friday, KINTEX Hall 3, Exhibition Center 1, Ilsan, Kyunggi Province)

Honduras Amb. Trapero delivering his congratulatory remarks on the podium on behalf of all visiting Ambs. & senior diplomats.

First of all, on behalf of all Diplomatic Corps. who attends this morning to join the gorgeous opening ceremony, I as Honduras Amb. to the Republic of Korea would like to express our sincere thanks for inviting us to this meaningful & significant Korea International Tourism Show 2019.

We believe that the people and the government's increasing demand of the outlook and spendings on tourism industry due to broader range of leisure lifestyle, have led to many openings to tourism exhibition with each nation's unique specialties all over the world. Nevertheless, I think that with rich sources of historic, cultural and natural properties along with the firmly provided tourism related business environment and infrastructure, Korea should be mainstay of world tourism industry.

Entire group photo before the luncheon in front of the Intl Tourism Show gate.

We Diplomatic Corps. heard that the hosts and organizations of Korea International Tourism Show 2019 present a one-stop tourism business place and outbound contents on culture and medical, beauty tourism business to create tourism industry clusters and added value.

In that regard, we Diplomatic Corps. would like to send our great expectations on the fact that it provides not only a coherent tourism information and active consultation environment but also a festive tourism industry market composing of diverse tourism-related contents including various events and programmes held together with Korea International Tourism Show 2019.

Another group photo before the tape-cutting from Diplomatic Corps. & VIPs.

Delivering our sincere thanks once again for the hosts and organizations of Korea International Tourism Show 2019, I would like to recommend all visitors today also to explore the beauty of Honduras by visiting our country in the near future if possible. Thank you,

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