Numbers of International Cruise Passengers Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
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- Source:Border Affairs Corps
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From 2020 to 2022, the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a substantial downturn in passenger numbers. However, as the international pandemic situation began to alleviate in 2023, cruise tourism was reinstated on March 6 of that year. The number of international cruise passengers amounted to 455,000, marking a recovery to 44.5% of the passenger volume in 2019, including 207,100 R.O.C. nationals (45.5%), 81,600 Hong Kong and Macau residents (17.9%), 700 Mainland Chinese (0.2%), and 165,600 foreign persons (36.4%).