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Push to bring more German tourists, cabinet approves upping promotions (Updated)
March 28, 2019
The cabinet on Wednesday approved the upping of promotions and incentives to attract more German tourists as the industry hopes to maintain or increase somewhat on last year’s record of almost four million visitors given new challenges.
Speaking after the cabinet meeting, Deputy Minister of Tourism. Savvas Perdios said that indications from the Berlin Tourism Fair were that there were challenges this year from the German market.
“The German market is dominated by general insecurity, with perhaps fewer visitor arrivals numbers,” he said, adding that this was brought about mainly by the recent collapse of Germania Airlines, Cypriot airline Cobalt, and Air Berlin. The problem globally caused by the Boeing crisis and a shortage of aircraft was also having an impact, the minister said.