February 20, 2020
On the basis of the results of the Passengers Survey released by Cystat, arrivals of tourists reached 85.622 in January 2020 compared to 81.970 in January 2019, recording an increase of 4,5%. January 2020 had the highest volume of tourist arrivals ever recorded in Cyprus during the specific month.
Analysis of changes
Tourist arrivals from Israel increased by 58,0% in January 2020 compared to January 2019 while an increase of 91,9% was also recorded for tourists from Ukraine. Contrary to that, a decrease of 4,7% in tourist arrivals from the United Kingdom, 18,1% decrease from Greece and 4,6% from Russia were recorded.