Visit Korea Committee has officially opened the website for 'K-Travel Bus,' a free bus travel package for an overnight trip between Seoul and local provinces for foreigners who wish to see the beautiful land of South Korea in its entirety.

K-Travel Bus provides convenience of moving between local provinces for the foreign tourists, usually concentrated in Seoul, while offering an overnight trip for outstanding tourism course and experience contents of local areas with a free bus travel package.

The program is developed and promoted together by the committee, Gangwondo, Chungcheong Tourism Promotion Council (Daejeon Metropolitan City, Sejong City, Chungcheongbukdo, Chungcheongnamdo), Jeollanamdo, and Gyeongsangbukdo.

Meanwhile, Gangwondo only participates in the form of festival shuttles between Seoul and Gangwondo during the test operation period this year. It will turn into the form of an overnight trip from 2016 to activate local tourism of Gangwondo with Pyeongchang Winter Olympics as a momentum.

The organizing committee particularly is planning to invite staffs and executives from Youku, the Chinese youtube, for promotion during the test operation period. In addition, the committee will work on advertisements and promotion through Hsinhua, People.cn, Weibo, and google, while proceeding Fam Tour (Familiarization Tour) to develop and promote products with related organizations and national airlines.

K-Travel Bus is the business to diversify local tourist goods, expand base for the inbound market for visiting Korea, and activate local tourism, along with '2016-2018 Year of Visiting Korea.' After the test operation this year, the operating areas will be extended to the national range from March 2016.

The price of this package is $170~180, and the package, exclusive for foreigners only, will include the entire fee for foreign language guide, accommodation, and experiential events.

You can reserve your seat on the 'K-Travel Bus' at the official site here. The 'K-Travel Bus' will operate once a week with a minimum of 15 passengers.

In celebration of the launching of K-Travel Bus, an open event of the official website is ongoing from Dec. 1 to 18. This event will provide an opportunity to experience K-Travel Bus for the participating foreigners.

For more details, please visit the official website (www.k-travelbus.com).

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