A record number of vacationers are expected to visit Jeju Island this summer amid the sweltering heat wave.
 
According to the Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Tourism Association on Saturday, over one-point-53 million people visited the southern resort island in July, up 43-point-six percent from just over one million in the same month last year.
 
Of the one-point-five million total, South Koreans accounted for one-point-13 million, 15 percent higher from the same period last year. Foreigners numbered well over 404-thousand, nearly four times the figure in July last year when foreign tourist numbers plunged due to the outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome or MERS.
 
The number of tourists in Jeju last month is at an all-time-high for the month of July.
 
The cumulative annual number of tourists to Jeju stood at some ten million 29-thousand as of Thursday, to top the ten million mark in the shortest period ever.
 
Last year, the number of tourists to Jeju passed ten million on October first, 44 days later than this year.