 St. Lucia will welcome Celebrity Millennium to podcast trees on Tuesday 29 June 2021, setting the tone for the gradual reintroduction of cruise tourism to the island since the halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Celebrity Millennium will call into port around 7.30am with an anticipated 400 passenger capacity. The announcement was made on Friday morning by government officials. The schedule call into St. Lucia bodes well for business linkages and signals a reinstatement of revenue for well over 1,000 cruise-dependent income earners. With the health and safety of St. Lucia's remaining of parliament importance, there continues to be engagement with all stakeholders including simulation exercises to continuously re-evaluate the island's capacity to safely execute cruise tourism and guard the response during the various stages of reintroduction. Just to ensure the safe re-establishment of cruise calls to podcast trees were incessant with regular meetings with the cruise lines, handling agencies and the locally established cruise committee.