 St. Lucia's tourism sector continues to show strong signs of rebound, with a reopening of a number of industry establishments coupled with the re-employment of hundreds of industry workers. Tourism officials remain optimistic as visitor arrivals to St. Lucia for the month of June have exceeded expectations by 34%. We'll learn more in this report. 21,357 visitors have been recorded for June, surpassing me's figure of over 7,000. Public Relations Manager at the St. Lucia Tourism Authority, Jarene Georges, explains the trends in source markets. We're seeing the U.S. market back at 92%, growth on the U.K. market, 4% for the month of June 2021 as well as the year to date, so far as we're really optimistic. The Caribbean market as well is opening up very nicely and projecting nicely. We saw the return of the inter-fairy service on the 8th. It was a sight to see when the ferry pulled into the port because we've not seen a ferry in so long and with airlift, there's several of them contributing to our arrivals for the summer period. Air Sunshine is one of them with direct routes from St. Croix and St. Kitts. So all of these are adding to our growth and our continued rebound amid the pandemic. Tourism Minister Hon. Dominic Vede indicates that hotel occupancy levels on the island are benefiting as a result, with favourable projections going into winter. The recovery is happening so quickly. There's such pent-up demand that the hotels are seeing record-breaking bookings. A lot of them are doing very well and there's just a lot of confidence in the marketplace. Projections for the winter are through the roof in terms of the bookings. We had a situation a few weeks ago where one of the American Airlines flights were cancelled but we had no place to put the guests because all of the hotels that are open were full and that really is something else when you see that our hotels have such very strong occupancy. The two officials were speaking during the welcome ceremony for Celebrity Millennium on Tuesday, July 13, 2021, from the Government Information Service, Helmeti Mok reporting.