Incheon Airport Corporation Offers $100 Off Transfer Tours, Supports Local Communities Through Year-End

KRW 10,000 prepaid transit cards provided
Free airport lounge passes distributed
Discounted airfare deals offered with Trip.com partnership

Incheon International Airport Corporation has introduced special benefits to encourage foreign transfer passengers passing through the airport to visit local attractions.

Incheon International Airport Corporation announced on October 12 that it will launch the “Promotion to Boost Local Tourism Linked to Transfer Passengers,” offering discounts on tour courses and other benefits to transfer passengers. The event began on October 1 and will run for about three months, through December 31.

The corporation is offering a $100 discount per passenger who takes part in the Incheon Transfer Tour program. Passengers can select a “Self-Guided Incheon Tour Course” on the official transfer tour website and provide proof of their airline ticket to receive the tour for $100 less than the regular price. Participants will also receive a Wowpass, a prepaid card exclusively for foreign visitors worth KRW 10,000 that can be used as both a transportation card and a payment card.

The promotion was organized under the “Business Agreement to Boost Tourism Linked to Incheon’s Global Hub,” signed in 2023. Incheon International Airport Corporation and the Incheon Tourism Organization will share the promotion costs, while the Korea Tourism Organization will handle overseas promotion. In the first half of this year, the number of transfer passengers at Incheon International Airport rose 18.1%, about three times the 6.3% increase in total international passengers. The corporation aims to channel this influx of passengers into spending at local businesses and repeat visits.

An additional promotion in partnership with global online travel agency (OTA) Trip.com will begin in the fourth week of October. Through a dedicated Trip.com page, passengers can get discounts of 10% to 20% on transfer tickets to China, Japan, and Europe. Interline tickets, sold through connecting routes operated by multiple airlines, will be discounted by up to about 50%. Around 2,400 free airport lounge vouchers will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to transfer passengers with layovers of less than 24 hours. Of these, 500 vouchers have been allocated exclusively for the Incheon Airport Duty Free app, which supports duty-free shopping and restaurant reservations.

Lee Sang-yong, head of the New Business Division at Incheon International Airport Corporation, said, “We expect this promotion to strengthen Incheon Airport’s competitiveness as a transfer hub and contribute to revitalizing the local tourism industry. We will continue to support the government’s goal of attracting 30 million foreign tourists by introducing a variety of promotions for transfer passengers linked to domestic tourism.”

Meanwhile, Incheon International Airport ranked first worldwide in international passenger traffic in the first half of this year, according to Airports Council International (ACI) standards, and surpassed 1 billion cumulative passengers. This month, it received the “Asia’s Major Airport of the Year” award from global aviation consultancy CAPA.

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