Fact: Tourist arrivals for the first four months of 2024 in Cyprus indicate an increase of 1.7% compared to the same period in the previous year, totaling 748,814 arrivals.
Fact: The Deputy Ministry of Tourism in Cyprus recently revised the inventory of hotels and tourist accommodations, with the majority of them not meeting the necessary compliance criteria.
Deputy Minister of Tourism Kostas Koumis acknowledged that the Cypriot tourism sector is in need of foreign workers due to an increase in tourist arrivals, leading to labor shortages.
Fact: Deputy Minister for Tourism Costas Koumis is optimistic that tourist arrivals in 2024 will equal the numbers registered last year, despite geopolitical crisis marking the region.
Fact: Deputy Minister of Tourism, Kostas Koumis emphasized the importance of international collaboration to overcome challenges facing the tourism sector during the 70th Session of the Europe Commission of the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) in Tirana.
– The services sector in Cyprus performed well in 2023, with significant improvements in various key areas.
– Accommodation and catering services saw an increase of 18.9%, administrative and support services grew by 15.5%, professional, scientific, and technical activities by 2.7%, and information and communication by 2%.
– Tourism sector showed improvement in 2023, with tourist arrivals reaching 3,845,652, approaching pre-pandemic levels of 2019.
– The UK had the most tourist arrivals in Cyprus in 2023, followed by Israel, Poland, and Germany.
– The Shipping sector transported 98% of raw materials and essential goods in Cyprus in 2023, contributing about 7% of GDP.
– Oev undertook various initiatives in 2023, including research on digital skills, Innovation Awards, and promoting digital skills and AI adoption.
– Oev also organized a Business Mission to Greece, Information Day on dispute resolution methods, and supported the newly established Tourism Promotion Agency.