Number of Russian tourist coming to Cyprus increases

An increase number of tourists from Russia choose Cyprus for their holidays. According to the Russian Travel Agents Association (ATOP) tourism flow from Russia to Cyprus records a 40% increase.
The upward trend in tourist arrivals to Cyprus is confirmed by the data regarding June, which show an increase of 53% compared with June 2009, thus uplifting Russian contribution to Cyprus tourism to 9.7%. The island’s bigger tourism market remains Great Britain with 46.6% of total arrivals.
ATOP considers that the total of 86.000 Russian tourist that visited Cyprus constitutes an indication of the upward trend, since the increase reaches 28% compared with 2008, which is one of the best years for tourist exchange between Russia and Cyprus.
The demand of Russian tourist for holidays in Cyprus will increase approximately by 60% and this will be a new record, a tourist company’s manager projects.