Tourist arrivals in March 2022 amounted to 128,840 compared to 8,811 recorded in March 2021, as well as 55,342 arrivals recorded in March 2020.
For the period January - March 2022, tourist arrivals amounted to 244,705 compared to 17,747 in January 2021, 246,556 in January - March 2020, and 357.475 in January - March 2019.
Arrivals from the United Kingdom were the main source of tourism for March 2022, accounting for 34.8% (44.829) of total arrivals, arrivals from Greece 9.9% (12,810), arrivals from Israel 8.6% (11,122), arrivals from Germany 8.2% (10,592) and arrivals from Poland 7.6% (9,805).
The purpose of travel in March 2022 was for 71.9% of tourists a holiday, for 16.3% a visit to friends or relatives and for 11.8% business. Similarly, for March 2021, 25.2% visited Cyprus for holidays, 35.2% for visiting friends or relatives and 39.4% for business.
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[TR] [TD]
Purpose of trip
[/TD] [TD]Percentage (%)
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]
Mar. 20
[/TD] [TD]Mar. 21
[/TD] [TD]Mar. 22
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Holidays
[/TD] [TD]71.7
[/TD] [TD]25.2
[/TD] [TD]71,9
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Visiting relatives & friends
[/TD] [TD]14,7
[/TD] [TD]35,2
[/TD] [TD]16,3
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Professional
[/TD] [TD]13,5
[/TD] [TD]39.4
[/TD] [TD]11,8
[/TD] [/TR]
METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
DEFINITIONS
DEFINITIONS
Tourists - Visitors who stay 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 March 2022 were obtained by processing data from the online platform "Cyprus Flight Pass". Passengers wishing to travel to Cyprus were required to enter into this online 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:
Statistical Service Portal, under Tourism
CYSTAT-DB (Database)
Predefined Tables (Excel)
Contact
Loukia Panagidou: Tel:+35722602152, Tel. lpanagidou@cystat.mof.gov.cy
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