Tourist arrivals in Cyprus recorded an annual increase of 12% in April, Cyprus Statistical Service data released on Tuesday show.
In a press release the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) points out that the results of the period May 2015 – April 2016, with 2 million 745 thousand arrivals constitute a record of all times for the same twelve months of the year.
On the basis of the results of the Passengers Survey, arrivals of tourists reached 225,575 in April 2016 compared to 201,495 in April 2015, recording an increase of 12%.
An increase of 9.6% was recorded in tourist arrivals from the United Kingdom (from 83,361 in April 2015 to 91,391 in April 2016), 53.4% increase from Russia (from 25,149 to 38,591) and 46.6% increase from Israel (from 8,312 to 12,185 this year).
On the other hand a drop of 6.4% was recorded in tourist arrivals from Greece (16,685 in April 2016 compared to 17,825 in April 2015).
For the period January – April 2016 arrivals of tourists came to 477,183 compared to 391,483 in the corresponding period of 2015, recording an increase of 21.9%. Referring to this result, CTO points out that an increase of arrivals was recorded from nearly all the main tourist markets.
The CTO refers in particular to an increase of tourist arrivals from the UK (up by 21.6%), Russia (up by 54.6%), Germany (up by 19.2%), Israel (up by 36.6%) and Poland (up by 62.3%)