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Αnnual Change +288,6% 

The arrivals of tourists reached 391.638 in October 2021, recording an increase of 288,6% compared to October 2020 (during which 100.791 arrivals were recorded), and a decrease of 10,3% compared to October 2019 (with 436.509 arrivals).

For the period of January – October 2021, arrivals of tourists totaled 1.691.030 compared to 612.975 in the corresponding period of 2020, recording an increase of 175,9%, and a decrease of 54,3% compared to the period of January – October 2019 (3.697.055 arrivals).

Arrivals from the United Kingdom were the main source of tourism for October 2021, with a share of 31,8% (124.501) of total arrivals, followed by Russia with 19,6% (76.613), Germany with 7,1% (27.623), Poland with 4,1% (16.154), Greece with 4,0% (15.669) and Ukraine with 3,9% (15.254).

For a percentage of 87,2% of tourists, the purpose of their trip in October 2021 was holidays, for 8,3% visit to friends and relatives and for 4,5% business. Respectively, in October 2020, 81,8% of tourists visited Cyprus for holidays, 11,5% visited friends or relatives and 6,6% visited Cyprus for business reasons.

METHODOLOGICAL NOTES

Definitions

Tourists – Visitors who stay for at least one night in Cyprus.

Tourist arrivals – The term refers to the number of trips and not to the number of persons. This differs in the sense that one person can take more than one trips during the reference period.

Source of data and coverage

The statistics for October 2021 were obtained from processing of the data of the electronic platform “Cyprus Flight Pass”. The passengers aiming to travel to Cyprus were required to submit in the above mentioned platform, information in relation to their flight, their country of residence, the purpose of their visit, as well as other demographic characteristics. This information was used by the Statistical Service, in order to estimate the number of tourist arrivals during the reference period. The weighting of data was conducted based on the data sent to the Statistical Service by the Civil Aviation Department and from the ship manifests, as well as data sent by the Analysis and Statistics Office of the Cyprus Police.

Due to issues that arose from the self-declared information provided by the passengers, it was not possible to provide a more extensive analysis by country of usual residence.

For more information:

CYSTAT Portal, subtheme Tourism

CYSTAT-DB (Online Database)

Predefined Tables (Excel)

Contact

Lucy Panayidou: Tel.:+35722602152, E-mail: lpanagidou@cystat.mof.gov.cy

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