Cyprus outbound travel stable in May

Outbound travel from Cyprus was stable in May, with the number of residents returning from a trip abroad rising by 0.2% to 88,384 residents in May, compared with 88,171 in May 2011.
Despite, or perhaps because of the crisis in Greece, there was an increase of 6.8% in the number of trips of residents to Greece (from 23,793 in May 2011 to 25,421 in May 2012).
Israel, Egypt and Lebanon also saw strong increases, of 29.0%, 16.5% and 11.6% respectively.
However, trips to the UK fell by 8.3% to 4.3% to 25,573.