Shanghai resumes group tours to ROK

Travel to the Republic of Korea is expected to remain stable, as four major travel services in Shanghai have recently resumed group tours to the country, tourism experts and insiders said.

Group tours to South Korea were suspended in protest following the United States' deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile system in the country in March last year. As tourism is affected by the political climate, it may be quite hard for outbound travel to the country to regain the popularity it had before, experts said.

Shanghai Jinjiang International Travel, which resumed group tours to South Korea on Thursday, said it is hard to predict the public response.