Tourist arrivals in Cyprus from Britain, Israel, Germany Holland, France and Austria have risen significantly in the first five months of the year.
In a press release the Cyprus Tourismi Organisation says that it has established a review team which follows developments in tourism on a monthly basis and in cooperation with CTO offices abroad and its partners makes proposals as to how to improve arrivals for the year.
Arrivals from the UK in the period of January – May 2015 were up by 39,140, or by 16.4% compared to the same period in 2014.
Tourist arrivals from Germany were up by 26.5% or 7,641. The Israeli market has recorded an increase of 58.1% with 9,189 more tourist arrivals than in 2014.
Tourist arrivals from France and Holland are also up by 44.7% and 40.7% respectively. The Austrian market has also recorded an increase of 76.1%.
The CTO says the effort as regards Russia, the second largest tourist market, is to limit the fall to 25% for the year. Figures show that in the first five months of the year tourist arrivals are down by 18.4%, the press release adds.
So far 29% of the expected tourist arrivals has taken place, which in combination to the briefings from CTO offices abroad, statistical data, Hermes Airport data about air travel and the organisation`s contacts with partners have given an indication as to how the tourist year will go, it notes.
The CTO believes that in order to make a change, all partners will have to work hard and in coordination with each other with a view to keeping hotels open during the winter season as well.
