The total number of ships due to visit during the 2023 season is the largest cohort since 2019, when the island greeted 47 vessels.

Travel restrictions, including a ban on cruise ships landing in Canada at the very start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March of 2020 that lasted until near the end of 2022, made tourism among the hardest-hit sectors of the economy and one of the slowest to come back.

Cruise ships are typically deployed a year in advance so they expect the earliest possible routes to restart by next year.

Globally, cruise passenger volumes are expected to return to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2023 and the Australian market is showing every sign that it too has embraced the worldwide cruising revival.

The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said there have been 161 applications for port calls from cruise ships as of the end of February — 90 in Busan, 12 in Incheon, 50 in Jeju, three in Yeosu and six in Sokcho.

The report attributed the market’s projected growth by type to mainstream cruise ships, which made up nearly half of the global cruise ship market in 2021 and are expected to maintain this position throughout the forecast period.

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Klaus Bondam is the new Director of the two cruise networks Cruise Baltic and CruiseCopenhagen as of March 15, 2023. He comes with several years of leadership experience, a political background and experience working with sustainability, mobility and bringing cultures …