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There are many people these days who are regretting watching a video of a foreign street at home as the way to travel abroad is blocked due to Corona.
In some cases, countries with good quarantine should consult each other so that people can come and go without a quarantine period.
Reporter Jeong Da-eun and Lee Sung-hoon report the difficulties of the travel industry in turn.
<Reporter Jeong Da-eun> This
is the office of a travel agency specializing in overseas travel.
[Ma Yeon-hee / Representative of Travel Agency: Our staff here and there are also our staff, but I have been on vacation since April.] The
calendar is stopped and the person who keeps the empty office is one representative.
[Ma Yeon-hee / Representative of Travel Agency: There are parts that have not been fully refunded by airlines or hotels...
I have to keep working because there are some people whose travel has been put on hold or reservations have been delayed.]
There is no sales, but I do not know how long I will be able to withstand the rent and maintenance fees.
There are 775 travel agencies closed from January to October this year.
Among them, 391 travel agencies mainly deal with overseas travel.
However, most travel agencies are closed like this even if they are not closed.
It is because it is not easy to even close the business.
I received an emergency loan prepared by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the local government, but it cannot be closed unless all of it is paid off.
[Kwon Byung-gwan/Travel agency representative: Even if I try to close the business, it will not close.
There are many cases where there is an address but there is no travel agency.
There are a lot of things that were left unattended.] In the
end, the staff was sent out,
[Kim Myung-seop/Travel agency representative: The number of employees was reduced by more than half.
I got a loan from the government to the Tourism Promotion Fund, broke the savings, broke the insurance, and endured it for 10 months...
.] I
work part-time in a hurry and endure it.
[Kim Myung-seop/Travel agency representative: I also carried luggage at a convenience store at night, and went to Yanggu, Gangwon-do, and picked apples and pruned...
.]
Most of the travel agency's employees went on unpaid leave, but businesses with less than 10 employees could not receive the government's employment maintenance support during the period of unpaid leave, making their livelihoods even worse.
[Yichunsu / travel agent (kids) inde youth now attend kindergarten children, has been worried dwaeseo also not sleep well at night.]
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<reporter Lee, Sung - Hoon>
Travel industry employment maintenance subsidies Government I barely endured it, but I was in a situation where even this was cut off.
Amid the sense of crisis that they can no longer withstand, some travel agencies are looking for new ways.
Kang Dae-woo, an office worker, prepares for a night tour in Hong Kong in front of the television.
[Live LAN tour has started in major cities.
You are here today because it transcends space and time.] A
local guide walks the streets of Hong Kong for 90 minutes carrying a single-person broadcast equipment, taking a tram and listening to music from a first-person perspective.
[Gang Daewoo/Seoul Gangdong-gu: I go to Japan and the United States a lot and I like it, but I can't go there because of the corona anyway.
(LAN trip) It seems that the sense of realism and the liveliness come alive...
.] It
is not profitable, but from the perspective of a local guide whose work has been cut off, it is like a rain in drought.
[Shin Yong-Hoon/Hong Kong Local Guide: Is it possible to travel online? In fact, I have a question mark myself.
The guides shouldn't be able to continue traveling.]
Some travel agencies have partnered with airlines to start sightseeing flights without destinations.
After eating in-flight meals, looking out the window and looking out at the ground scenery, you are satisfied.
However, it cannot be a fundamental solution.
The travel industry complains that the '14-day self-isolation' that takes place upon departure and arrival is virtually no different from business suspension.
[Chang-hee Oh/President of Korea Travel Agency: I can't get rid of the quarantine, so it's a way to ease it, and it's going to be reduced from 14 days to 12 days in Israel, for example.
There is a way to reduce it by even two or three days...
.] The
industry wants to introduce a'travel bubble' that exempts countries with excellent quarantine from the quarantine period.
[Hong Kyu-seon/Dong Seoul National University Professor (Doctor of Tourism): It is usual because more than 70% of all tourists are traveling to Southeast Asia in China.
When they start to open Southeast Asian countries, I think there is room for travel agencies to take a breath.] The
travel industry in crisis of death and the signs of a recurrence of the corona are deepening their sighs.
(Video editing: Yumira, VJ: Jung Min-gu, Park Hyun-woo)
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