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Busan Tourist Information Service to be expanded for the convenience of tourists coming to Busan.

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As the increase in medical tourism and the operation of the new open-top double-decker City Tour buses to Seomyeon is resulting in ever higher numbers of domestic and international tourists in the Seomyeon area, Busan City has announced that it will be opening a ‘Mobile Tourist Information Center’ in the Seomyeon area. This service first started in Nampo-dong and the Gwangbok-dong area in Jung-gu last December. 

 

Tourist guides who can speak either English, Japanese or Chinese will walk around the Seomyeon Medical Street and Bokgaero areas of Seomyeon ready to offer foreign tourists with tourism information services, including tourism information and transportation services, and providing them with a tourist map. 

 

The tourist guides – with 4 in Jung-gu and now 3 more in Seomyeon – will walk around a designated route from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and are dressed in red vests so tourists can easily distinguish them.

Meanwhile, the Medical Tourism Information Center is expected to be established on the Seomyeon Medical Street.

 

In addition, in response to the increase in the number of international cruise ships docking at Busan Port this year, Busan City is stationing 2 professional tourist guides at the international cruise terminal. The ‘Cruise Buddy’ program run so far by student volunteers, conversant in foreign languages, who work as tourist guides and shuttle bus aides as well as helping out at the various ‘welcome events’, received high praise and positive feedback.

 

During the summer months of July and August, sightseeing interpreters will also be on hand to help out foreign tourists at Gwangalli, Haeundae and Songdo Beach.

 

Finally, the City is operating its Ubiquitous Tourist Information System complete with electronic city maps at 39 major tourist attractions and has stationed 93 cultural heritage guides at 19 major tourist attractions including Beomeosa(Temple) and Taejongdae.