Jeju welcomes record 11,000 cruise ship tourists in single day Saturday

Jeju welcomed more than 11,000 cruise ship tourists in a single day on Saturday, the largest number since the island began full-scale cruise tourism in 2005, the provincial government said Sunday.

Three large cruise ships arrived back-to-back at Jeju’s ports on Saturday. At 7 a.m., the 90,000-ton Celebrity Millennium docked at Jeju Port, carrying up to 2,593 passengers from Hiroshima, Japan.

The 170,000-ton Ovation of the Seas arrived at Gangjeong Cruise Terminal from Tianjin, China, with a capacity of 4,919 passengers. Later at 2 p.m., the 130,000-ton Adora Magic City, which departed from Shanghai, made port with up to 5,246 passengers on board.

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