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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 26 travel services
Best travel services in Seoul
The 10 most notable travel services in Seoul, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Seoul City Tour Bus
135-7 Sejong-daero
327 m from Gwanghwamun Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.287, percentile 100 of 26
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2
더 요트
160 Yeouiseo-ro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.272, percentile 96 of 26
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3
북한산성 탐방지원센터
진관동 62
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.270, percentile 92 of 26
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4
Chalet Travel & Life
26 Eoulmadang-ro 5-gil, 서교동
345 m from Sangsu Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.209, percentile 88 of 26
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5
구기 탐방지원센터
172 Gugi-dong
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.152, percentile 84 of 26
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6
혜초여행개발
관철동 45-1
122 m from Jonggak Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.039, percentile 80 of 26
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7
Desta Travel and Tours
39 Usadan-ro 10-gil
353 m from Itaewon Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.017, percentile 76 of 26
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8
Nepal Tour Co. Ltd
서울특별시 마포구 마포대로 73, 202호(도화동,SK허브그린) #202, 73Mapodaero, Mapo Gu, Seoul
193 m from Gongdeok Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.992, percentile 72 of 26
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9
코레일관광개발
동자동 43-229
253 m from Seoul Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.992, percentile 68 of 26
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10
백운탐방지원센터
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.963, percentile 64 of 26
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).