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How can CYPRUS Make up Losses in Tourism
Paris, France
Paris is still a top destination for travellers from all over the world to visit and it is seeing a rebound with visitor arrivals now that it is no longer mandatory to wear face masks.
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Hotel occupancy has also seen a rise with more Europeans arriving and tourists from the USA who are encouraged by the weaker euro against the US dollar.
SINGAPORE TOURISM SOARS WITH INDIANS RANKED FIRST
Since opening its boarders, Singapore tourism numbers have been rising with Indians visitors being the largest number of visitors by country of origin. Singapore accepts all fully vaccinated travellers from around the world without any need for testing or quarantine. Indian arrivals are replacing the Chinese with approx. 95,500 Indians entering Singapore from January to April 2022. Second are Indonesians at 89,700 and 3rd Malaysians with 45,600 making the trip by air to Singapore.
In 2019 more than 300,000 visitors came from China, Singapore largest tourism source, which is still largely closed to travel.
Tourism is booming to the point that travel related firms are struggling to keep up with the demand. A lack of staff is the main issue, like everywhere!
HOW CAN CYPRUS MAKE UP LOSSES IN TOURISM
Cyprus was a top destination for Russian tourists (they made up 20-25% of tourist flow) and now with none, the question is, how will Cyprus make up for lost inbound tourism business. There are several places to look: expand and build on a market it already knows; Europe as well as extend its tourist season and finally increase its air connections.
Already there are more routes on offer from several European destinations to Paphos and Larnica airports, making Cyprus an even better option for European holiday makers. 36 new destinations are now in operation such as Marseille-Paphos, Paris-Paphos, Frankfurt-Paphos, Vienna-Paphos, Cologne-Germany. 140 routes are expected to operate in 2022, which will serve 38 countries excluding the Russian and the Ukrainian markets. Increased routes from the UK, Greece, Israel, Lebanon, Scandinavia, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, France, Germany and Italy will also help ‘fill the gap’.
Extending the tourist season into the autumn months as well as looking at attracting tourists from the Gulf countries will benefit the tourism sector of the island too.
Paphos, Cyrpus
