Cyprus plans increase in Russian holidaymakers

The Cyprus Tourist Organisation (CTO) stated it expected holidaymaker arrivals from Russia to be in excess of 400, 000, announcing also the launching of routes coming from quite a few more large airports from the Russian Federation.

In 2012 arrivals are going to be directed to Cyprus from 16 locations from the Russian Federation, namely Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Ufa, Rostov, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Omsk, Chelyabinsk, Tyumen, Kemerovo, Arkhangelsk and additionally Perm.

A CTO delegation, headed by way of the organisation’s Chairman Alekos Orountiotis, went to the actual Russian capital from Feb 6 to 9 and had group meetings with important tour travel operators from Moscow as well as St . Petersburg.

Speaking during a press meeting, Orountiotis said that the outcomes of their meetings were extremely reassuring and that Cyprus remains to be an important visitors destination for the Russian market “which is one of the chief areas of concern for us. ”

As outlined by Orountiotis, through 2011, arrivals from Russia increased from nearly 50% and additionally in 2010 additionally by 50%.

In 2004, there was 83, 800 arrivals of Russian tourists, in 2005 97, 000, in 2006 114, 000, in 2007 145, 000, in 2008 180, 000, in 2009 148, 000, in 2010 223, 860 and in 2011 234, 000.

Orountiotis said they hope that holidaymaker arrivals coming from Russia are going to be above 400, 000, noting that this Russian market is the 2nd largest tourist market for Cyprus, after the United kingdom one.
Feb 12, 2012

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