 545 cruise visitors graced the shores of St. Lucia on Tuesday, 410 visitors arrived on Celebrity Summit into podcast trees and 135 visitors arrived on Star Breeze's inaugural call, which anchored in Rodney Bay. Star Breeze, a German-built cruise ship owned by wind-star cruises, will overnight in St. Lucia and depart on the evening of July 14. Visitors to podcast trees were greeted by tourism officials, gifted with branded items and serenaded to the sweet sounds of Stilpan music. Jesse Leos was on site and filed his report. A second and a third cruise vessel has visited St. Lucia since the resumption of cruise tourism on Island. On Tuesday 13th July, the Celebrity Summit birthed at Point Seraphine with 410 fully vaccinated passengers and the Star Breeze of Wind-Star Cruises anchored in Rodney Bay with 135 passengers on board. On the 29th of June when we saw the first cruise ship come through, for some of us it was emotional and then you know additional calls today, Celebrity Cruises and then we have Star Breeze over at Rodney Bay, a total of 545 visitors on Island. I mean it really speaks well for the cruise sector and the progressive rebound that we're anticipating. July we're expecting to see some more cruise calls, August is projecting very nicely and the rest of the year is starting to project very nicely. That was Jarene George's public relations manager at the St. Lucia Tourism Authority. Celebrity Summit passengers disembarked eagerly for a day of island-wide tours and sightseeing in the capital. It's been a long 18 months for us. We were on the summit on the last voyage so it was very special for us to be able to come back and cruise again on their second voyage out and we're happy to be here in St. Lucia. What a beautiful place. We're so glad to be here. What is your name and where are you from? My name is Angela Oldenburg. I'm from Appleton, Wisconsin. Wonderful. So tell us what does this mean to be able to vacation again? So beautiful to be able to be together with people, with family and I think we all have a new perspective on things. When you are, have things taken away from you, you appreciate so much more when you can get together and do it again. So we're so grateful to be here. Julie, what are your plans for today in terms of excursion? Today we're doing the beach break. Yes. So we're super excited and then we're hoping to come back and just walk around a little bit and see the sights. Because I was hoping that. You're going to walk around Castries, the city? Yes. Okay. That's definitely our plan. We were so excited that when we were told we would be able to do that because when we were in Barbados yesterday you weren't allowed to go anywhere on your own. You could only do shore excursions with the ship. When you're going on an excursion, we're taking a coastal tour on a boat and going and having a little beach time. So we're just glad you guys are open and happy to be back. You might be asking, are you fully vaccinated? Yes. It was required for this ship. So yes. But I was in the education field, I was the director of special education for my school system. I just retired. So it was very important to me to get vaccinated. We all feel very safe. We've all been vaccinated. We've all been negative tested. So we feel very safe and we're so grateful to be back and doing this again. Wonderful. What are your plans for today's excursions? Yes. We're going out on a catamaran to see the island and yes, just experience this beautiful place. Passengers aboard the Celebrity Millennium fall well within the ship's over 2,000 capacity. Stakeholders nonetheless appreciate the business. General manager of foster and in-screw services in St. Lucia is Ian Herman. It's a really exciting time to see the resumption of causes. Most importantly, although the ship carries about 2,100 passengers, to arrive at 400, that is sufficient for us because it's really the time for us to sort of observe and see what are the loopholes, what are the gaps and of course to continue to enhance the experience as they come here. Meantime, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Information and Broadcasting, Donald Invite, is appealing for patients as the sector recuperates. By no means are we creating an expectation that we will have the sort of spend that we've had before. I mean, we wouldn't be able to accelerate from zero to 100 so quick, but in doing so we're asking for the patience of the public. I mean, there will be some vendors who will not get patronized. There will be some persons who even sell in with their water coolers on the streets that will not be patronized, some taxi drivers. But the little trickle that we get, just really understand that while you are not able to get the benefit today, that probably your neighbor or your colleague is probably getting that benefit. And so the testing period doesn't bring the immediate explosive rewards that we would like, but the semblance of hope of what is to come is sufficient for us to keep on ensuring that we keep on the pace with the cruise lines executive so that we are able to get more cruise arrivals on the itinerary for the rest of this year. The celebrity millennium will depart podcastries by the end of Tuesday while the star breeze overnight sends St. Lucia for departure Wednesday evening. For the Government Information Service, I am Jesse Leance reporting.