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As the self-quarantine, which had been a major obstacle to overseas travel, is lifted, the travel industry, which has been hit by the COVID-19 virus, has regained vitality.

Demand for overseas travel is soaring to the extent that more than 1,000 travel package products are sold in an hour.



Reporter Jae Hee-won reports.



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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 two weeks to come and go, and if I get a hotel, I spend a lot of money (overseas travel), but I was reluctant to go there



. There are many inquiries about whether it is possible to change the honeymoon destination from Korea to overseas.



[Hyun-Woo Yoo / Travel agency employee: In the hope that the travel sentiment will recover quickly, we prepared a 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, with Europe. We are 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 are skyrocketing 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.



(Video editing: Hwang Ji-young, VJ: Park Hyun-woo) ​​​​