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The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Minister Choi Hwi-young) and the Korea Tourism Organization (President Park Sung-hyuk) announced on the 19th that five producers of tourism Dure will be active in five places and regions, including Gwangmyeong-si, Seocheon-gun, Chungnam, Haenam-gun, Jeonnam, Jung-gu, Ulsan, and Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do.
"Tourism Dure" is a resident-led tourism policy project in which local residents' communities solve local tourism problems on their own with tourism Dure PD, and autonomously operate tourism projects with local characteristics in areas such as accommodation, food, travel, and experience.
The project, which began in 2013, has expanded sustainable regional tourism results and revitalized the local economy by discovering and fostering 195 tourism PDs and 998 local community businesses in 147 regions by last year.
In the contest (November 5th to December 5th last year) conducted to select the "2026 Tourism Dure" project area and Tourism Dure PD, a total of 33 regions and 60 candidates for Tourism Dure PD applied, and the competition rate reached 12 to 1.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Tourism Organization selected the final project area through the first document evaluation (December 15-16 last year) and the second comprehensive evaluation (December 9th of this month) based on the professionalism, regional understanding and field performance, commercialization and performance creation capabilities, and cooperation plans with local governments.
The selected tourism Dure PD will discover the community of residents in each region in the future and closely support them from the planning stage so that they can grow into a self-sustaining tourism business.
To this end, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will comprehensively provide activity expenses and capacity-building education for up to five years so that the tourism Dure PD can settle stably in the field, accumulate expertise, and generate continuous results. Tourism companies support start-up education, consultation (consultation), and market development.
Kang Dong-jin, a tourism policy officer at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said, "Tourism Dure, a resident-led tourism model in which residents directly plan and operate tourism projects, has accumulated practical results such as creating local jobs, diversifying tourism contents, and returning tourism profits to the region." "The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism plans to further strengthen the performance-oriented support system through the tourism Dure to focus its policy capabilities on creating a foundation for residents and tourism PDs to grow together and for residents' communities to grow on their own."
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