Tourist arrivals in Cyprus for the period of January – October 2018 increased by an annual 7.8% to 3.67 million, marking a new record for tourist arrivals for the first ten months of the year, CNA reports.
According to the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat), in October 2018 tourist arrivals amounted to 433,617 marking an increase of 6.6% compared with October 2017.
The UK continued to constitute Cyprus’ main tourist market with 34% for the ten-month period, compared with 34.5% in January – October 2017, with Russia the second highest market with its share dropping to 20.5% compared with 23.2 in January – October 2017. Israel was the third largest source of tourism for Cyprus with its share declining to 5.90% compared with 8.1% in 2017, followed by Germany whose share in the tourist market decreased marginally to 4.6% in January – October 2018.
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