Park Sang-hwan, the chairman or Hana Tour was awarded of Gold Tower Order of Industrial Service Merit in the 40th Tourism Day celebration event held in 27th September.

Han Okmin, the recently appointed president of Modu Tour was awarded of Prime Minister Prize.

MCST(Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Minister Yu Jin-ryong) held a celebration event of the 40th World Tourism Day in Seoul Lotte Hotel and awarded prize to 104 representatives and employees in tourism business.

About 700 persons including Jo Hyun-jae(MCST vice minister), Nam Sangman(the president of Korea Tourism Central Association), Jeong Se-gyun(a congressman), Shin Hak-yong(the chairman of Bureau of Education, Culture, Sports and Tourism in national assembly), Kim Jae-yoon(Representative of Study Forum of Culture and Tourism in national assembly), foreign diplomatic delegates to Korea and other prize winners have attended in this event.

 The best honor of the day, Gold Tower Order of Industrial Service Merit was awarded to Park Sang-hwan, the chairman or Hana Tour who has been contributed to tourism business.

And, Lee Seok-myung, the Representative Director of Dongma Inc., who has been greatly contributed to the progress of tourism industry, was awarded of Silver Tower Order of Industrial Service Merit. And overall 24 persons were awarded of the Order of Industrial Service Merit in Tourism Promotion, the President Citation and Prime Minister Citation.

In addition, the Tower Order of Tourism Promotion was awarded to 15 travel agencies that have contributed to improving tourism profits by earning $1,000,000,000 in tourism business.

In this 40th Tourism Day celebration event which was the first ever since president Park Geun-Hye’s inauguration, the scale of the prize had been enlarged by awarding one more Order of Industrial Service Merit.

And it shows the government’s interest and encouragement on tourism industry as it was emphasized in the first Tourism Promotion Conference that was held in 17th July after observing 11,000,000 annual foreign tourists of 2012.

Especially, in this event, prize was awarded not only to representatives of the industry but also to “hidden contributors” as field experts, translation guides, tourism school teachers, sellers and tourism information center’s employees.

This reflected the current government’s policies that emphasize on field service.

Jo Hyun-jae, the vice minister of MCST said, “Every workers in tour service industry who face tourists in person are the actual power of tourism business”. And he stated that the government will assist multi-complex tourism service by educating creative experts in the industry.

After the celebration event, in Garnet Sweet of Lotte Hotel, the policy seminar under title of “Policy for invigoration of domestic tour industry : Tour that makes people happy, Tour that helps region” was hosted by Korea Tourism Academy and Korea Tourism Central Association.

In the seminar, about 100 members from different fields have attended and discussed about promoting tourism culture through invigorating domestic tour industry and about new policy tasks for creating tour industry related jobs.

MCST(Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) is going to reflect the opinions suggested during the seminar in establishing comprehensive policy for invigorating domestic tour industry and announce in this year.

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