Tourism Breaking News
In keeping with their stance to return to normalcy after the challenging years, Korean Air announced the resumption of daily flights from Dubai to Seoul/Incheon from 20th April. This shows the solidarity between the two destinations and that the travellers are keen on discovering from both sides of the world. Kyung Seon Park – Regional Manager Middle East, Korean Air reiterated, “Korean Air’s Dubai route has served as a gateway that connects South Korea and the Middle East countries. In order to provide a more convenient schedule for business travelers related to Korean companies’ projects in the Middle East and travelers interested in traveling to the Korea & Middle east, the frequency of Korean Air flights has been increased to the same daily as before COVID-19. Passengers can taste bibimbap, Korea’s unique food (vegetable mixed rice), as an in-flight meal, and receive the best service on board. We truly provide excellence in flight.”
The past few years witnessed a great increase of travellers opting to visit Korea especially due to the K -Pop music culture which became a great crowd puller towards the destination. In the UAE, concerts were held pulling massive crowds of both local and expat communities enjoying the music of this great nation. Business travellers on the other hand can enjoy the daily flights as they can frequent their travel once again just as it was prior to the pandemic.
Korean Air has been serving the Middle East clientele for a long period of time. The flight timings are quite convenient for travellers whether business or leisure to visit Korea, as it departs Dubai in the evening and arrives in Incheon the next day. In terms of Incheon to Dubai, once can hop in on a flight late morning or early afternoon and be in Dubai later that night. Both ways it works well irrelevant, if one is a business or leisure traveller the timing suits both types of travellers.
Middle East is quite a strong market for Korea hence the website by the national tourism board of Korea has both in Arabic and English explaining the ways in which one can discover the country. Visa free entry to citizens of the UAE, Oman, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar is quite an advantage and this gives Korea an edge to attract more visitors to the destination.
