South Korea to waive visa fees for Chinese tour groups

South Korean authorities are also seeking to increase the number of flights to China and simplify duty-free tax refund in a bid to attract more Chinese tourists, Korea Times reported.

China had last month added South Korea to the list of countries to which its nationals can go on outbound tours.

South Korea hopes to attract 1.5 million Chinese tourists in the second half of the year.

In 2019, the year before Covid broke out, six million Chinese visited South Korea.

Thailand plans to waive visas for Chinese visitors from October to attract tourists from the world's largest outbound market.