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Deputy Minister of Tourism Mr. Costas Koumis, who headed the Cypriot Delegation visiting the United Kingdom for important contacts.
Specifically, Mr. Koumis held a series of contacts with heads of tourism organizations operating in the British market, as well as with airline executives, where the course of tourism in the current season and the coming winter, as well as the prospects for next year 2025 were discussed.
During his visit to London, the Deputy Minister of Tourism of Cyprus also held meetings with members of the Cypriot community, as well as with the President of the National Cypriot Federation of the United Kingdom, Mr. Christos Karolis.
In his statements, after the conclusion of the contacts, Mr. Koumis said the following:
"The British market is, without a doubt, our country's leading tourism market and over time its contribution to our country's tourism is extremely large and significant.
In 2023, tourist arrivals from Great Britain exceeded 1.3 million visitors (100,000 more than in 2022), while already in the first quarter of 2024, 229 have visited our country.000 Britons, an extremely satisfactory performance if we take into account the situation in which the British economy is, which has been in recession for months, with the adverse effect of reducing the purchasing power of households and putting pressure on the business sector. Let us not forget that lending rates have risen from 0.1% to 5.25%, with all that this implies.
Fortunately, in recent times the British economy has been showing signs of recovery, which is also reflected positively in tourism.
What we are pleased to see from the meetings we have had is that the target we set at the beginning of this year to repeat last year's performance is clearly looking like it will be achieved.
In relation to 2025, most companies are still in the planning phase, and we have had the opportunity to exchange views both in relation to tourism in general and in relation to specific forms of tourism, which we believe deserve special attention."
(NZ/GS)
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