4th application for half-price trip to Hoengseong… Local gift certificate refund for half of travel expenses

Apply from the 16th... 1st to 3rd rounds 8,437 people participated, local consumption 1.5 billion won

(Hoengseong = Yonhap News) Reporter Lim Bo-yeon = Hoengseong-gun, Gangwon-do, is trying to increase local consumption of tourists and expand the living population by saying 'Nice to meet you!' The 4th project of ‘Hoengseong Half-Price Travel’ is being promoted.

While traveling to Hoengseong, 50% of the cost spent at tourist affiliated stores is returned in the form of a mobile Hoengseong local gift certificate.

The support limit is 100,000 won for an individual and 200,000 won for a group of two or a family.

A family of 3 to 5 people living at the same address can receive up to 500,000 won.

Any Korean citizen can apply, and the travel period is from the 17th of this month to the 11th of next month.

Applications will be accepted on the Hoengseong Half-Price Travel website starting at 10 a.m. on the 16th and will close when the budget is exhausted.

Previously, the first to third projects all closed early, and the number of tourists who completed refund settlement was 8,437.

The amount they spent in Hoengseong was about 1.5 billion won, or an average of 178,000 won per person.

The military plans to pay refunds in the form of local gift certificates to encourage repeat visits and additional consumption.

Park Eun-jeong, head of the Culture and Tourism Department, said on the 11th, “We will continue this project to reduce the burden of travel costs for tourists and help local small businesses sell.”