{"id":14293,"date":"2009-11-30T03:31:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T19:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/en\/?p=14293"},"modified":"2009-11-30T03:31:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T19:31:36","slug":"south-korea-eases-restrictions-on-visa-free-policy-for-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2009\/11\/30\/14293\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea Eases Restrictions On Visa-free Policy For Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local media reports that the South Korean government is considering further loosening restrictions to its visa-free policy for Chinese tourists, in order to develop the country's tourism industry.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The report says if the plan is approved, senior citizens over the age of 65, children, teenagers, government officials, and staff of multinational corporations will enjoy visa-free visits Korea for 30 days at most.<\/p>\n<p>An official from South Korea's tourism administration said that by 2015, China will have 100 million outbound travelers. If South Korea could attract 10% of them, that would exceed the total number of tourists visiting the country in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local media reports that the South Korean government is considering further loosening restrictions to its visa-free policy for Chinese tourists, in order to develop the country's tourism industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[13026,17659,13271,14398,13255,17660,12782,12784,17661],"class_list":["post-14293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-children","tag-government-officials","tag-outbound","tag-senior-citizen","tag-south-korea","tag-teenagers","tag-tourism","tag-visa","tag-visa-free"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}