Hwaseong City Tour 'Haru' Wins Environmental Minister's Award at 13th National Sustainable Development Conference

Hwaseong City Tour's responsible travel initiative 'Haru' won the Environmental Minister's Award at the 13th National Sustainable Development Conference.

On the 5th, Hwaseong City announced that the city tour won the Environmental Minister's Award in the 'Climate Action 21' category at the '13th National Sustainable Development Conference' contest jointly hosted by the Ministry of Environment and the National Sustainable Development Conference.

The city tour's responsible travel initiative (also known as 'Haru') has participants practicing low-carbon travel that minimizes carbon emissions, promoting local food through urban-rural exchange, and pursuing continuous communication-based travel with local residents.

Additionally, the program received high scores because civil organizations, government agencies, and experts formed a public-private governance to widely promote the city's history and culture and contributed to creating a sustainable society.

Hwaseong City Tour, which began full-scale operation in March, offers seasonal travel courses including Yongjusa Temple with ancestral heritage, Yung and Geolleung Royal Tombs, and Jaeamri, as well as the Dinosaur Egg Fossil Site harboring 100 million years of mystery, Gungpyeong Port and Jeongok Port, and Gukhwado Island.

In particular, it operates as 'responsible travel' through the prohibition of single-use products, over 30 minutes of walking tours after arriving at destinations, and purchasing local specialty products by visiting traditional markets.