#hotel

By Tom Cleaver Five hotels in Ayia Napa are paying less in rent to the government than they should, given their revenues and the value of the land on which ...

Hotels and tourist premises operating without a full license got yet another reprieve on Thursday, as parliament voted through a law allowing them to acquire a ‘special operating permit’. The ...

Hotels in Cyprus are increasingly adopting the Green Key certification, as the scheme gains traction as part of the island’s broader tourism reform. The certification signals compliance with environmental ...

A total of 13 hotels have applied to the government to have small desalination units of their own installed on their premises, agriculture ministry permanent secretary Andreas Gregoriou said on Monday. ...

Cyprus’ leading trade unions have confirmed that talks over the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) have reached a deadlock and preparations for possible strike action are back on the table. The latest ...

The labour ministry on Monday stepped up efforts to find a compromise on the future of the Cost of Living allowance (Cola) as hotel unions continued to threaten to strike. ...

Hotel sector unions on Wednesday accused employers of breaching a collective agreement signed in December, prompting Peo to say they were left with no choice but strike measures. “For months ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday praised hotels for increasing tourist  revenue despite the recent crisis in the Middle East and the broader global geopolitical environment. “With great satisfaction, we see ...

A chemical leak at a hotel in Protaras triggered an emergency evacuation on Monday afternoon, after fumes were spotted rising from an underground pool machinery room. The Famagusta fire station “...

Two women were hospitalised after inhaling smoke from a fire that broke out early this morning in a ground-floor hotel staff accommodation in the Famagusta district. The blaze began around 1.40...

Hotels operating without a full permit got another extension on Thursday, after MPs granted them one more year to comply. The relevant act was passed by unanimous vote at the ...

While the growth in Airbnb accommodations boosted the broader regional economy, it has raised concerns over its impact on the traditional hotel sector, the Paphos Tourism Board (Etap) said on ...

Only a small fraction of hotels and tourist accommodation establishments are fully licensed, MPs heard on Tuesday, while unlicensed businesses continue to operate with impunity, confident that the state will ...

Hotels or other tourist premises may neither request nor keep copies of customers’ identification papers – such as ID cards or passports – the Data Protection Commissioner said on Monday. In a ...

The owner of a hotel development in Latsi has continued construction work despite a lack of permits as the Paphos district organisation (EOA) said on Tuesday it will seek its ...

Trade union Sek announced on Saturday that it and other unions had agreed in principle to new, improved collective terms for hotel workers. The union said it had held “last ...

A new round of intensive talks will continue as part of the attempts to clinch a deal between unions and employers in the hotel industry, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said ...

Peace in the hotel sector has been put on hold as trade unions dismissed an intermediary proposal put forward by the labour ministry for the renewal of the industry’s ...

There is a “positive climate” in discussions with trade unions for the renewal of the collective agreement in the hotel industry, Cyprus Hotel Association (Pasyxe) director general Philokypros Roussounides said ...

An agreement between hotel owners and employees in the sector focusing on improving working conditions is expected soon following a joint meeting between the parties, it emerged on Friday. The ...

The north will soon require all property owners who rent their properties on short term bases on tourism websites such as Airbnb to register their properties with the ‘government’ as ...

A proposal to establish a special category of “rural hotels” was discussed by the House commerce committee on Tuesday. The proposed law, tabled by Disy MPs Kyriakos Hadjiyiannis and Nikos ...

The head of the association of hospitality sector owners (Osika) Neophytos Thrasivoulou said attendance at leisure centres nationwide currently hovers around 30 per cent, making January one of the most difficult ...

The average occupancy rate for hotels in December is projected to hover between 35 and 40 per cent, according to the director general of the Hoteliers Association (Pasyxe) Philokypros Roussounides. Speaking to ...