한·중 FTA 관련 관광서비스 분야의 영향과 대응방안

Abstract

Nations of the world now make a pitch for regionalization and blockingto overcome the inherent limitation of multilateralism, and our country isalso positively push forward FTA to improve our nation’s economic survivaland competitiveness. As a result, we signed FTAs with huge world marketssuch as EU and the US, starting from Chile, and an FTA with China,currently handled as core subject, is under negotiation. South Korean government aims at comprehensive FTA including service,investment, government procurement and intellectual property right aswell as product, to maximize the effect of FTA, and currently the centerof global competition is moving from product to service. Among the servicearea, the tourism service industry is a higher value-added business givinga positive impact on the effective use of resources and economic development,and nations of the world including advanced countries put forth multilateralefforts into development of tourism industry. Due to the increasing Chineseand foreign tourists visiting our country over recent years, Korean tourismservice entered into a new phase of growth, and development of tourismservice is expected to take a larger role in expansion of jobs and socialand economic development, by bringing about variously derived industries. Chinese tourism market size is rapidly growing, and is expected to bethe largest in the world by 2020. And as Chinese tourists visiting ourcountry is likely to increase steadily, we need to establish a strategy for negotiation on the FTA service area, to make good use of tourism industryas the future growth engine, through attracting Chinese tourists, preparingfor the era of 10 million Chinese tourists in the future. By doing so, I expectboth South Korea and China can grow and develop more qualitatively andquantitatively in tourism area through FTA.