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Foreign tourist reservations top 100,000 for FIFA World Cup
Written: 2002-05-02 00:00:00 / Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
Hodo Tour Co. said Thursday over 100,000 foreign tourists have made reservations to travel to Korea during the World Cup finals A leading member of a consortium created by the Korean organizing committee for the 2002 World Cup (KOWOC) last year to provide transportation and tours for World Cup spep spectators, Hodo said that it had signed up 103,000 tourist as of late April. By type of reservation, some 50,000 were part of a package tour, while the remainder will be individual tours. The company, which is part of KOWOC's nine-firm Transportation & Tourism Service Agency (KTTSA), added that it expected this number to increase to 150,000-200,000 by mid-May. KTTSA is designed to provide a one-stop service connecting soccer games with sightseeing tours and hotel and transportation arrangements.
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