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The arrivals of tourists reached 71.921 in February 2022 compared to 5.047 in February 2021 and to 105.592 tourist arrivals in February 2020.

For the period of January – February 2022, arrivals of tourists totaled 115.865 compared to 8.936 in the corresponding period of 2021, and to 191.214 during the period of January – February 2020.

Arrivals from the United Kingdom were the main source of tourism for February 2022, with a share of 25,9% (18.618) of total arrivals, followed by Greece with 12,2% (8.771), Russia with 8,0% (5.732), Ukraine with 7,9% (5.711), Israel with 7,8% (5.639) and Poland with 6,4% (4.612).                                                                                                

For a percentage of 64,0% of tourists, the purpose of their trip in February 2022 was holidays, for 21,5% visit to friends and relatives and for 14,5% business. Respectively, in February 2021, 11,6% of tourists visited Cyprus for holidays, 35,2% visited friends or relatives and 53,2% 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 February 2022 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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