Hotel managers urge standardised rankings for Covid-19 measures
The Cyprus hotel managers association Pasydixe on Tuesday called for standardised rankings for all EU countries when it comes to Covid measures. In an announcement...
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Coronavirus: Travel agents urged to ‘roll up sleeves’ and get to work for 2021
The island’s travel agents are getting ready for next year in a bid to turn around the pandemic’s negative impact on tourism, with arrivals until...
Coronavirus: tourism industry, in letter to president, pleads for easing of restrictions
The island’s tourism industry on Friday called for easing of restrictions on tourist arrivals, citing the low number of people found positive at the island’s...
Tourism revenue falls 88.5% in first seven months
Revenues from tourism during the first seven months of the year took a nosedive, dipping by some €1.26 billion (close to 88.5 per cent) compared...
Cyprus tourism 95 per cent dependent on foreign visitors
New Eurostat figures have highlighted the dependence of Cyprus tourism sector on foreign visitors at a time when the coronavirus outbreak has put a lid...
Cyprus can emerge as winter tourism destination, Perdios says
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, Cyprus has the potential to emerge as a first-class winter tourist destination due to its very good epidemiological picture compared to...
Phase two of campaign to attract domestic tourism to Paphos underway
The second part of the initiative to attract domestic has been announced by the Paphos regional board of tourism. This programme is aimed at increasing...
Ryanair to launch Paphos-Paris flights in December
Paphos has been included in Ryanair’s flight programme from Paris Beauvais Airport with two flights a week from December, which was on Thursday described as...
Attracting tourism to Cyprus post-Covid
With the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic expected to take a toll on tourism until 2023 or 2024 the deputy ministry of tourism on Monday...
Perdios says tourists to Cyprus can have ‘a proper holiday’ in safety
Tourism Minister Savvas Perdios touted Cyprus for a proper holiday in safety as the island is among the countries with the lowest coronavirus cases in...
Israeli-Cyprus tourism links to be stepped up
Efforts to develop tourism between Cyprus and Israel are to be stepped up, the Cyprus Hoteliers’ Association (Pasyxe) and the Israeli ambassador said after a...
Wizz Air relaunches flights to Finland
Wizz Air will resume flights to Turku, Finland from Larnaca as of October 11, the company announced on Friday, following the relaxation of coronavirus measures....
UK operators want tests for British tourists to be valid for 96 hours
UK tour operators want Cyprus to allow British tourists to take a coronavirus test 96 hours before arrival on the island instead of the current...
Tourist arrivals fall 81 per cent year on year in August
Tourist arrivals in August fell by 81 per cent, while the number of Cypriots who travelled abroad during the same month fell by almost 75...
May launch for Cyprus-Greece ferry link ‘realistic’
The launch of a ferry service from Cyprus to Greece in May is a realistic objective, with tickets expected to cost €50 one-way and €80...
Passenger traffic reached close to 300,000 in August
UK and Swedish tour operators appear to be overcoming misgivings over a requirement that visitors present a negative Covid-19 test on arrival and are beginning...
Perdios says too early to write off the year for tourism
There is interest from both the Russian and Israeli markets should Cyprus open to the two countries in the next few weeks, Deputy Tourism Minister...
Kritou Terra waterfalls, a victim of their own success
Once a secret idyll known only to locals, the Kremmiotis waterfalls have become the must-have post on social media By Bejay Browne Summer 2020, and...
Blue Air cancels all flights from Larnaca to Greece until end of March 2021
Low-cost Blue Air has cancelled all its flights between mid-September and end of March from Larnaca to Athens and Thessaloniki, its representative in Cyprus, Orthodoxou...
TUI resuming flights to Cyprus
British tour and flight operator TUI is resuming flights to Cyprus with 11 flights arriving just this weekend. Following the lockdown and other restrictions due to...
