It was crowded with people preparing to return to their daily life after finishing the trip and those who traveled to Jeju at the end of the holiday season.
In the domestic departures waiting room located on the second floor of the airport, long lines of tourists loaded with golf bags in carts lined up to check-in.
On the other hand, whenever an airplane landed on the runway, tourists poured out like a tide in the arrivals hall on the first floor of Jeju Airport.
Tourists dragged their suitcases and golf bags leisurely out of the airport arrival hall.
Due to the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), almost no return visitor was found at the airport saying goodbye to parents, siblings, or relatives at the airport as in the previous explanation.
In terms of social distancing, most returnees hurried back through the airport without seeing off their families.
According to the Jeju Island Tourism Association on the 14th, 31,489 people on the 10th, a day before the Lunar New Year holiday, followed by 36,326 on the 11th, 28,136 on the 12th, and 25,135 on the 13th. Found.
On the 14th, it was predicted that about 32,000 people would visit Jeju by synthesizing the flight and ship reservations.
It means that 153,000 returnees and tourists visit Jeju for five days from the 10th to the 14th.
Despite the government’s urging to refrain from traveling during the Lunar New Year holiday to prevent the spread of Corona 19, there are about 10,000 (7%) more than the 143,000 visitors to Jeju during this period originally predicted by the Jeju Island Tourism Association.
The warm weather continued throughout the Lunar New Year holiday, and there are many vacant seats and vacant rooms in aircraft and hotels, so it seems that more tourists visit Jeju by making reservations on the day.
Jeju had an emergency in quarantine.
Throughout the Lunar New Year holidays, many tourists flocked to major tourist destinations, restaurants, and cafes.
Famous restaurants and cafés also noticed the lack of social distancing, such as waiting in long lines of tourists.
In Jeju, the number of confirmed corona19 related to the metropolitan area has been increasing over the past week, increasing anxiety.
From the 6th to the 12th last weekend, 5 out of 12 confirmed cases in the metropolitan area were confirmed cases related to the metropolitan area.
The province sets the New Year holiday period as a special quarantine inspection period and mobilizes the self-governing police and personnel from each department to conduct inspections to maintain quarantine measures.
The province is planning to apply the’One-Strike Laws’ without exception when a violation of the quarantine rules is detected.
(yunhap news)