Korea losing Chinese medical tourism business

 05-Jun-17, International Medical Travel Journal

The number of Chinese tourists visiting Korea is in decline due to diplomatic and trade tensions between the two countries. In March 2017, Beijing banned travel agencies in the country from selling package tours bound for Korea as economic retaliation, casting a pall over the tourism industry that depends heavily on Chinese tourists.

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8 million Chinese tourists a year have visited South Korea over the last five years, nearly half of the total number of tourists. The number of Chinese medical tourists began falling in 2016 after problems with poor control over the quality of clinics, a boom in unlicensed clinics, and much publicity in China about problems concerning treatment.

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