North Korea is promoting and expanding its domestic tourism market, according to recent visitors and a brochure obtained by NK News.

The new push gives apparently gives North Koreans the opportunity to visit the country’s tourism hot spots as part of organized tour groups.

“I am told that it is ‘increasingly popular’ but then that is not difficult for an industry that barely existed previously,” Simon Cockerell, general manager of Koryo Tours told NK News, adding he sometimes saw local tourists “taking trips to places like the ski resort or Mt. Myohyang in organised groups”.

“There is a department in