China-Korean Cooperation in Tourism Development and Docking Mechanism

In recent years, with the expanding of economic and cultural exchanges between China and South Korea, and the gradually deepening understanding of the two peoples, China-Korean tourism is rapidly heating up. Especially the FTA signed by Japan-China-South Korea on June 1, 2015, the tourism year hold in each country, and the favorable policies such as signing of visa-free, zero-tariff, which are all promoting China-Korean tourism faces new opportunities and challenges in tourism development. Paper from the five aspects in geography advantages, cultural traditions, international relationship, economic and trade, and tourism resources to analysis the cooperation fundamental in China-Korean tourism at first, discuss the advantages in tourism development system of the two countries, and combine with the tourism cooperation status, propose the recommends for China-Korean tourism cooperation and development, build the connection mechanism, with a view to achieve the further development of China-Korean tourism in the new era, create the new thoughts in China-Korean tourism development, achieve win-win China-Korean cooperation, and promote the development of China-Korean tourism cooperation into a new stage.