Tourist arrivals in Cyprus increase by 8.2% in June 2018, registering a new record

Αrrivals of tourists reached 511,073 in June 2018 compared to 472,450 in June 2017, recording an increase of 8.2%, οn the basis of the results of the Passengers Survey announced by the Statistical Service of Cyprus.

June 2018 had the highest volume of tourist arrivals ever recorded in Cyprus during the specific month.

For the period of January – June 2018 arrivals of tourists totaled 1,645,149 compared to 1,463,206 in the corresponding period of 2017, recording an increase of 12.4% and outnumbering the total arrivals ever recorded in Cyprus during the first six months of the year.

Tourist arrivals from the United Kingdom increased by 9,9% in June 2018 compared to June 2017 and an increase of 20.2% was recorded for tourists from Sweden. Increases were also recorded from other important tourist markets, such as Greece (4.7%) and Poland (36.4%). Contrary to that, a decrease of 5.1% in tourist arrivals from Russia, 15.1% decrease from Israel and 11.3% decrease from Germany were recorded.

The United Kingdom constitutes the main source of tourism for Cyprus for June 2018, with a proportion of 32.4% while arrivals from Russia account for 24.1% of total arrivals, from Sweden 5.0%  and from Israel 4.7%.

Most people who visited Cyprus in June this year, to be exact 86.4% of them, were here on holiday, 8.7% visited friends and relatives and 4.9% came on business.