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From today (21st), if you have completed your vaccination, you do not need to self-quarantine when entering from overseas.

As the demand for overseas travel, which has been suppressed for a long time, grows, ticket reservations are also on the rise.



This is reporter Jae Hee-won.



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Travel agencies have been flooded with inquiries since the 11th when the self-quarantine exemption for inbound travelers was announced.



Inquiries from travel agencies are three times higher than usual.



[Travel agent consulting staff: Currently (reservation) available areas are Saipan.

Guam, Maldives and Cancun.

Self-quarantine is exempted for overseas travelers when they enter Korea (inoculation complete).]



In the case of a travel agency, it has been confirmed that 21 people will depart for Greece on the 25th and 26 people will depart for Turkey on the 30th.



[Choi Gyu-in / Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul: (Isolation) It takes a long two weeks to come and go, and if I get a hotel, I will spend a lot of money (I think I will come back comfortably when the obligation to quarantine for overseas travel disappears)



. There are many inquiries about whether it is possible to change from abroad.



[Hyun-Woo Yoo / Travel agency employee: In the hope that the travel sentiment will recover quickly, we prepared the product focusing on cost-effectiveness and safety rather than the company’s profit.]



Travel agencies are also offering products that were focused on existing quarantine-exempt areas such as Saipan in Europe. and expanding to the Americas.



A TV home shopping trip to Hawaii sold more than 1,000 packages in an hour.



The number of overseas ticket reservations is also increasing rapidly.



In the case of a travel agency, in the three days after the quarantine was announced, the number of reservations was more than eight times that of the same period last year.



Airlines are also racing to increase the number of flights overseas, but there are signs that ticket prices will skyrocket as there are many routes that have not yet resumed.



The duty-free shop industry, which has been hit hard by the corona virus, has also started to attract customers by strengthening various promotional events in line with the abolition of the purchase limit for Koreans.