Paradisøer shut down: No krydstogtturister in over a year

the Industry for krydstogtrejser has been hit hard by coronakrisen. First was the number of ships forced to isolate all aboard for smitteudbrud, and since then, several companies had to advertise, they dropped the sommersæsonens races.

Tourists, who dream to visit the Seychelles with a cruise ship, however, must arm themselves with great patience. The african island nation has decided to ban all cruise tourism up to the end of 2021 in order to stop the spread of the covid-19.

It writes CNN.

It happens according to the media, despite the fact that tourism is the country's second largest source of income after fishing.

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According to the Seychelles national stat bank visited button 362.000 tourists in 2018 a, which consists of 115 islands in The Indian Ocean and with Apollo Travel can be described as 'an unspoiled tropical paradise' with 'white paradisstrande'.

the Lack of cruise guests can therefore hit the local population hard. The seychelles ' minister for tourism, aviation and ports, Didier Dogley, has a similar reason for stating that, at the same time with the significant decision to launch a number of initiatives to help the country's tourism industry.

It is especially tourists from Europe, which tends to keep the hand in this industry in Seychelles.

According to the statistics, getting 240.000 tourists in 2018 from Europe, with Germany as the great high flier - the Seychelles white beaches and turquoise water attracted this year over 61.000 alone from Germany.

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