Tourist arrivals in February 2022 amounted to 71,921 compared to 5,047 recorded in February 2021, as well as 105.592 arrivals recorded in February 2020.
For the period January - February 2022, tourist arrivals amounted to 115,865 compared to 8,936 in the corresponding period of 2021, and 191.214 in January - February 2020.
Arrivals from the United Kingdom were the main source of tourism for February 2022, accounting for 25.9% (18.618) of total arrivals, arrivals from Greece 12.2% (8,771), arrivals from Russia 8.0% (5,732), arrivals from Ukraine 7.9% (5,711), arrivals from Israel 7.8% (5,639) and arrivals from Poland 6.4% (4,612).
The purpose of travel in February 2022 was for 64.0% of tourists a holiday, for 21.5% a visit to friends or relatives and for 14.5% business. Similarly, for February 2021, 11.6% visited Cyprus for holidays, 35.2% for visiting friends or relatives and 53.2% for business.
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[TR] [TD]
Purpose of trip
[/TD] [TD]Percentage (%)
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]
Feb. 20
[/TD] [TD]Feb. 21
[/TD] [TD]Feb. 22
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Holidays
[/TD] [TD]60.7
[/TD] [TD]11.6
[/TD] [TD]64,0
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Visiting relatives & friends
[/TD] [TD]21.4
[/TD] [TD]35.2
[/TD] [TD]21.5
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Professional
[/TD] [TD]17,8
[/TD] [TD]53.2
[/TD] [TD]14,5
[/TD] [/TR] [/TR]
Methodological information
Definitions
Tourists - Visitors staying at least one night in Cyprus.
Tourist arrivals - The term refers to the number of visits and not to the number of persons. This differs in the sense that a person may make more than one visit in the given reference period.
Data source and coverage
Data for February 2022 were obtained from the processing of data from the online platform "Cyprus Flight Pass". Passengers wishing to travel to Cyprus were required to enter into this electronic platform various information regarding their flight, their country of residence, the purpose of their visit, as well as other demographic data. These data were used by the Statistical Office to estimate the number of tourists arriving during the reference period. The extrapolation of the data was based on data sent to the Statistical Service by the Civil Aviation Department and from the ship passenger lists, as well as data sent by the Analysis and Statistics Bureau of the Cyprus Police.
Due to problems arising from the completion of the data by the passengers themselves, it was not possible to further analyse the data by country of usual residence.
For more information, interested parties can visit theStatistics Service Portal, under Tourism CYSTAT-DB (Database)
Predefined Tables (Excel) or contact Mrs. Loukia Panagidou: tel:+35722602152, tel.lpanagidou@cystat.mof.gov.cy
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