“If all the announced solutions are implemented, the hotel cluster in question will meet global standards in terms of category, star rating, and convenience for travelers, if no additional security-related measures are introduced on the territory, as is present throughout the territory North Korea, when travelers must be part of a strictly group, travel with a local representative, and often this is a state security officer, as in Soviet times with us, then it is quite suitable for residents of the Primorsky region, for whom getting there is much closer than from the central part of Russia , this may have actual meaning,” Muradyan said.
The specialist emphasized that the swimming season in Korea is “extremely limited.”
“But if on the territory of a hotel, tourist center, sanatorium, I don’t know what will ultimately emerge from this, there will be some kind of spa program, healthcare, oriental medicine and other forms that will create a unique center of attraction for tourists, then when construction is completed such a grandiose project, the tourism potential there could be quite high,” he explained.
Earlier it became known that North Korea began to build the Wonsan-Kalma tourist zone to receive Russians. It is noted that the tourist center will have 17 hotels, 37 inns, 29 different shops, and a 4 km long beach.