North Korea tour operator hopeful ahead of country's reopening

The Manila Times

North Korea tour operator hopeful ahead of country's reopening  A Beijing-based North Korea tour operator hails an unexpected announcement that the country will reopen to foreign tourists this winter as 'very good news.' Koryo Tours said it had received notice from isolated North Korea that tourism to the northeastern city of Samjiyon would resume in December after nearly five years of Covid-triggered closure.   AFP VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe    Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes #tmtnews #northkorea #koryotours #samjiyon

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00:00So

00:30so

00:52it's like a pyramid

01:00so

01:12good news even though as far as i as far as we know it's only going to be some zone for now

01:18but i'm sure that it's just like with the russians it's just like the first step towards a

01:25broader reopening and we do hope that it's going to be that tourism will be back to the same level

01:35and same extent as it used to be before covid. So basically we are in a waiting position

01:41but we are definitely very excited because for us at the company it's not only the fact that we were

01:49not able to go to north korea it's also that we have colleagues we have been working on and we

01:55met on a monthly basis so we become like friends and since the pandemic except for the managers

02:01there is no way to contact them. So in a nutshell now we are in a waiting position waiting for

02:07confirmation from Pyongyang on the logistics the itinerary and then once we have the information

02:15we can release the tours and start planning. So it looks like that there has been a lot of

02:21changes in Pyongyang and i hope that after the initial reopening in Samjeon they're going to

02:28reopen the rest of the country and we will be able to experience like how Pyongyang changed in the world.

02:45you

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