#Cyprus tourism

Occupancy rates at hotels in Paphos are expected to reach 80 per cent during the months of September and October, according to Paphos hoteliers’ association chairman Thanos Michaelides. Speaking to the ...

The number of tourists visiting Larnaca during the summer season this year is expected to number around 400,000, according to the town’s mayor Andreas Vyras. Speaking to the Cyprus News ...

Tourist arrivals reached 523,718 in July 2023 compared with 454,657 in July 2022, an increase of 15.2 per cent, the statistical service announced on Thursday. For the period of January – July 2023, arrivals totalled 2.137 million compared ...

Nicosia was the focus of discussions on Friday to come up with ideas that will inject some new life and a new interest in the historic city. The island’s ...

Cyprus tourism sector expects full recovery by 2024, with industry stakeholders cautiously optimistic as they navigate the current set of challenges By Kyriacos Nicolaou The recovery of the Cyprus tourism sector ...

Deputy Minister of Tourism of Cyprus, Costas Koumis, and Vice Minister of Culture and Tourism of China, Li Qun exchanged on Monday ideas, views and suggestions in a bid to ...

Cyprus, Greece and Lebanon signed a memorandum of understanding on tourism on Friday in Athens, with the aim of further strengthening and upgrading the cooperation of the three countries in ...

The price of holidays from Britain has risen by 44 per cent in the last year, including to Cyprus, which has gone up 15 per cent, it emerged on Thursday. Air tickets ...

Four five-star resorts in Cyprus have reduced the consumption and disposal of single-use plastics in the past two years through the SUPMed European project, Cyprus hotels association (Pasyxe) announced on ...

Larnaca district is set to receive a major boost in upcoming years, including a “robot hotel,” tourism development organisation (ETAP) announced on Monday. In a written statement, ETAP listed the ...

Could Cyprus become a destination for those wishing to save money by spending the winter months away from home in a warmer place? With revenue and arrivals up throughout 2022 compared ...

Tourist arrivals in August saw a 40.2 per cent increase, reaching 451,133, compared to the 321,858 in August 2021, the Cyprus statistical service said on Monday. From January to August 2022 incoming tourists totaled 2,127,172 compared ...

A tourism expert explains why the decades’ old dream of a tourism upgrade has no chance of success By Victor Mantovani I am not very fond of Sundays. As a ...

The biggest enemy of any country’s tourism industry is uncertainty, whether it be political, financial, or more recently a health crisis. Apart from three successive record years, 2017, 2018 and 2019, Cyprus ...

In today’s episode, Deputy Minister for Tourism Savvas Perdios unveiled details of the ‘National Strategy for Tourism’ for 2022 after two devastating years. In other news, the vaccination of children ...

By Antigoni Pitta With Covid tests, passenger locator forms and vaccination certificates, travelling in the midst of a pandemic is tricky enough, and becomes even trickier when having to navigate ...

Over 200 hotels in Cyprus are taking part in the government scheme valid from July 16 to August 31 which subsidises tourist accommodation costs for those who have been vaccinated or recently recovered ...

DP World Limassol ready to welcome cruise lines back, as Cyprus makes a dynamic return to become Eastern Mediterranean’s top cruise hub By Nawaf Abdulla More than one year ...

Greece has a higher positivity rate than Cyprus, but is deemed a safer country to visit By Kyriacos Iacovides The health ministry is taking pride in the daily number of ...

By Antigoni Pitta Grand plans announced by the transport minister for the opening of the island’s airports and optimism expressed by other tourism players earlier this week, began to ...