Cyprus tourism tumbles 14% in October

Tourism arrivals in Cyprus continued to fall steeply in October, falling by 14% 230,431 in October 2009 compared with 267,866 in October 2008.
Arrivals from the United Kingdom, which sources more than half of all tourists, fell by 19.1% to recorded 115,526 in October 2009 compared with 142,868 in October 2008.
There was also a sharp decrease in arrivals from Russia, which has recently been a buoyant market, with arrivals falling by 29.6% to 14,131 from 20,076 in October 2009.
There was a milder decrease of 2.0% in arrivals from Germany to 16,166 compared to 16,498 in October 2008.
The only bright spot was Greece, where there was an increase of 21.9%from 10,598 in October 2008 to 12,924 in October 2009.
For the period January – October 2009 arrivals of tourists totalled 1,985,321 compared to 2,233,721 in the corresponding period of 2008, recording a decrease of 11.1% over the same period of the previous year.