The US Virgin Islands’ cruise field has relaunched.
This week, Movie star Edge turned the to start with cruise ship to check out the USVI considering the fact that the onset of the pandemic, sailing out of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
It is a important phase forward for the cruise industry in the US Virgin Islands, very long just one of the territory’s main economic drivers.
“The USVI Office of Tourism welcomes our to start with cruise call to the Territory in additional than a year,” explained US Virgin Islands Tourism Commissioner Joseph Boschulte.
The ship arrived at roughly 50 percent potential, with close to 1,500 passengers and 700 crew on board.
The business relaunches as the US Virgin Islands carries on to see powerful tourism performance, with some of the greatest guests totals of any Caribbean place in the pandemic.
It is the to start with of a collection of return calls to the US Virgin Islands around the next handful of months.
That will include things like Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas on July 29 Superstar Equinox in St Croix on Aug. 18 and Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas on Sept. 28, in accordance to Jayne Halcomb, Director of Vacation spot Progress – the Caribbean and the Americas, for Royal Caribbean Group.
— CJ