Seoul, South Korea – North Korea will open a signature tourist place on its east coast next week, which in its travel industry called the prelude of a new era, although there is no word about when the country will fully reopen its borders to foreign visitors.
The Wonsan-Kalma Coast Tourist Zone has hotels and other accommodation for nearly 20,000 guests who can swim in the sea, sports and other recreational activities and eat in restaurants and cafes on the spot, the state media said.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un traveled on the spot and stated the official Korean central agency on Tuesday on Tuesday, the official Korean central press agency reported on Thursday. He said that its construction would be recorded as “one of the greatest successes this year” and, according to KCN, called a “proud first step” to realize government policy development of tourism.
The Wonsan-Kalma zone will start service for home tourists next Tuesday, Kcna said. But she didn’t say when she would start to receive foreign tourists.
Kim promoted that this country to become a tourism center in the effort to revive the sick economy and the Wonsan-Kalma zone is one of its most spoken tourism projects. KCNA said that North Korea will also confirm plans for the construction of large tourist sites in other parts of the country.
North Korea, however, did not fully pick up travel curbs, including a ban on foreign tourists, which were stored at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Since February 2024, North Korea has received Russian tourists in the middle of a prosperous army and other partnerships between the two countries, but Chinese group tours, which accounted for more than 90% of visitors in front of the pandemic, remain stopped.
In February this year, a small group of international tourists in five years visited the country, but tourist agencies in March said their tours to North Korea were suspended.
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