Authorities scrambled on Friday to get to the bottom of reports in the north that Greek Cypriot owned hotels and buildings in Varosha had been bought by an unnamed Turkish ...
Cyprus hoteliers’ association (Pasyxe) president Philokypros Rousounides on Wednesday said that the island benefited from an influx of tourists during the Catholic Easter period, primarily from Great Britain, Poland, Austria, ...
By Nikolaos Prakas and Elias Hazou
Some 200 workers at three Paphos hotels called off a strike on Thursday evening, hours after their walkout, following a deal with employers over the ...
Hoteliers are upbeat about the new employment regulations, after the cabinet decided to raise the percentage of third country nationals allowed to be employed by businesses from 30 to 50 per cent ...
The occupancy of hotels in the Paphos district is expected to reach 35 per cent in March, President of the Paphos Hotels Association, Thanos Michaelides said on Sunday.
In statements to ...
The upcoming tourist season is expected to be much better than 2019
Cyprus’ popularity as a high-quality, low-price tourist destination highlights its competitiveness, attracting more and more holidaymakers. Reservations in hotels ...
Last year was a difficult for hoteliers, and it is still too early to make predictions for 2023, president of the Paphos Hoteliers Association Thanos Michaelides said on Tuesday.
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The cabinet on Tuesday approved off-season training schemes for hospitality workers in tourist areas and pay scale updates for the police and fire service, as well as upgrading the forestry ...
Hoteliers and businesses are disappointed by the government decision to suspend financial incentives to airlines to use Larnaca and Paphos airports, they said on Thursday.
The director-general of the Cyprus ...
The online booking of hotel rooms has shown little change since 2016, a European Commission study into six member states, including Cyprus has shown.
The study – also on Austria, Belgium, Poland, ...
Labour ministry inspections of hotels detected 11 undeclared workers and the imposition of three €7,500 fines.
The series of inspections were carried out during July at various hotel units on a Cyprus-wide ...
Hoteliers hope to meet their revised targets for 2022 but are bracing for a difficult 2023 as the cost-of-living crisis eats into the purchasing power of potential visitors and a labour shortage ...
Although still reeling from the impact of the war in Ukraine, hoteliers in Famagusta are predicting a better July than June, president of their association Doros Takkas said on Wednesday.
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The Kataklysmos three-day weekend is shaping up to be a much-needed shot in the arm for the island’s hotels and tourism sector, with locals and foreign visitors alike flocking ...
Hotels in the Famagusta region are expected to see 80 per cent occupancy rates through local interest over the weekend of Kataklysmos, the festival of the flood, from June 10 to 13, they ...
Cabinet on Wednesday approved a €1.4m subsidy scheme to promote a circular economy in the hotel sector as part of efforts to enhance sustainable, high value tourism sector, deputy government ...
The list of hotels participating in the government’s subsidised summer holidays programme that starts on May 1 has been posted online, the deputy ministry of tourism said on Tuesday.
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The war in Ukraine has seen hotel occupancy fall, president of the Paphos Hotels Association Thanos Michaelides said on Monday, with those hotels that are open running on an occupancy ...
Some 363 unemployed people showed up for job interviews at the Alexander The Great hotel in Paphos, the local hoteliers association head Thanos Michaelides said on Saturday, as the local industry ...
The establishment of a new hospitality school in Platres is aiming to tackle both labour shortages in the hospitality industry, as well as the issue of rural flight, people flocking ...
The Association of Cyprus Tourist Enterprises (Stek) urged the government on Thursday to take immediate action to solve all issues related to staff shortages in hotels, adding that, so far, ...
Occupancy levels of hotels that are open in Paphos are not even reaching 20 per cent, president of the Paphos Hoteliers Associaion Thanos Michaelides said on Sunday.
Speaking to the Cyprus ...
Hotel occupancies over the three-day Christmas and New Year weekends were around 50 per cent, director of the Cyprus Hotels Association (Pasyxe) Philokypros Rousounides told the Cyprus News Agency on Monday. ...
Paphos hotels operated at a 50-55 per cent capacity in November, Paphos hoteliers association head Thanos Michaelides said on Saturday.
Even though November did not reach 2019 figures, it was a ...