The Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) has revealed that April 2017 was the most successful April on record in terms of global tourist arrivals.
During that month, tourist arrivals to Cyprus reached 286,331, compared to 225,575 in April 2016 – a year-on-year increase of 26.9 per cent. This is the highest volume of tourist arrivals the island has ever recorded during the month of April.
Of these arrivals, the UK and Russia were the main source markets, with visitors from those countries making up 37.1 per cent and 16.4 per cent of total arrivals respectively. There was a year-on-year increase in visitors from the UK (16.3 per cent), Russia (21.8 per cent), Germany (156.6 per cent) and Israel (77 per cent) and a decrease in tourist arrivals from Greece (2.5 per cent).
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Cyprus records highest ever April tourist arrivals