MyRealTrip Invests 3 Billion KRW in Travel Platform 'CreateTrip'

Seeking Mutual Growth for Leap to Global Travel Platform

MyRealTrip announced on the 14th that it has made a strategic investment of 3 billion KRW in CreateTrip, a leading domestic inbound travel (foreigners traveling within Korea) platform. Through this investment, MyRealTrip plans to focus on providing convenient services and diverse travel experiences to foreign tourists visiting Korea by utilizing the content and infrastructure owned by CreateTrip.

Founded in 2016, CreateTrip offers services in 14 languages including English, Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Italian, and Mongolian. Based on this, as of July, it has 60,000 daily visitors and 1.5 million monthly users from 230 countries.

Currently, CreateTrip provides services related to Korean travel such as ▲reservations for popular restaurants, K-pop dance tourism, studio photo shoots, workshop experiences, beauty and medical services, concerts, and sightseeing tours ▲accommodation bookings including hotels and pensions ▲Korean language schools and domestic study abroad information with online applications ▲financial services essential for traveling and living in Korea such as currency exchange, payments, and insurance. Recently, it has been experiencing rapid growth centered on K-beauty and medical-related travel products.

Lee Dong-geon, CEO of MyRealTrip, said, “Through this investment, we have been able to combine CreateTrip’s expertise in the inbound travel market with MyRealTrip’s know-how in global travel services. We will especially expand focusing on K-beauty and medical-related travel products and services, where CreateTrip has strengths.”

Im Hye-min, CEO of CreateTrip, stated, “We will do our best to ensure that MyRealTrip’s abundant experience and overwhelming growth in the outbound travel market successfully combine with CreateTrip’s unique inbound expertise to create synergy.”