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China partially lifts travel ban to South Korea, online curbs stay

2017/11/28 20:15:28
However, executives from tour agencies in the regions said they had been told not to include in their travel packages units of South Korean retail-to-chemicals giant Lotte Group - which provided land for the installation of a U.S.-backed anti-missile system that Beijing vehemently opposed.

In South Korea, a halving of inbound Chinese tourists in the first nine months of the year cost the economy USD 6.5 billion in lost revenue based on the average spending of Chinese visitors in 2016, official data shows.

But a late October agreement between the countries to move past the dispute had boosted hopes group tours may be allowed in the near future.