KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Tourism Board (STB) has reported a significant increase in South Korean tourist arrivals in the first month of 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With 21,541 visitors recorded, this marks a significant increase compared to the 55,152 South Korean tourists who visited Sabah throughout the entire year of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sabah’s Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister and STB chairman Datuk Joniston Bangkuai attributed this growth to the increase in scheduled direct flights into Sabah. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He described the Korean market as being crucial to Sabah’s tourism efforts, adding that Sabah is well-connected with other countries such as Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, China, Taipei, and Brunei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Currently, there are 30 weekly direct flights from Korea into Sabah, with Kota Kinabalu connecting via Incheon and Busan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a significant increase from 2022, when there were only 16 weekly flights between Kota Kinabalu and Incheon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an interview with the media team of the Korean-based Coceuco company, Joniston noted that Sabah’s islands, beaches, and golf courses are popular among Korean tourists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coceuco recently organized an incentive trip to Sabah for 450 top achievers, manufacturing and selling multi-functional skincare products under the brand Repove.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prior to the pandemic, Sabah registered 396,700 tourists from South Korea in 2019 and 337,100 in 2018, making them the second-largest international arrival after China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the increase in direct flights and Sabah’s natural beauty and tourist attractions, the STB is optimistic about continued growth in South Korean tourist arrivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Tourism Board (STB) has reported a significant increase in South Korean tourist arrivals in the first month of 2023. With 21,541 visitors recorded, this marks a significant increase compared to the 55,152 South Korean tourists who visited Sabah throughout the entire year of 2022. Sabah’s Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}