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The arrivals of tourists reached 43.944 in January 2022 compared to 3.889 in January 2021 and to 85.622 tourist arrivals in January 2020.

Arrivals from Russia were the main source of tourism for January 2022, with a share of 14,6% (6.414) of total arrivals, followed by Greece with 14,0% (6.141), United Kingdom with 13,0% (5.708), Ukraine with 11,2% (4.942), Poland with 6,6% (2.890) and Israel with 6,3% (2.784).

For a percentage of 57,5% of tourists, the purpose of their trip in January 2022 was holidays, for 22,3% visit to friends and relatives and for 20,2% business. Respectively, in January 2021, 11,9% of tourists visited Cyprus for holidays, 26,3% visited friends or relatives and 61,8% visited Cyprus for business reasons.

Methodological information

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 January 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 abovementioned 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 visit theCYSTAT Portal, subtheme Tourism CYSTAT-DB (Online Database) Predefined Tables (Excel) or contact Ms Lucy Panayidou: tel.:+35722602152, e-mail: lpanagidou@cystat.mof.gov.cy

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