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[Z4]

What do you reckon will happen then next year then?

With price hikes at restaurants/bars etc and the recession how will next year fare? The recession will still be with us next year IMO and I think people may opt for different destinations. The Euro is bad now and has been bad for over a year.

What new attractions will arrive for next year? What new offerings or hotels will be built?

If you were CEO of the CTO what would you do?

Not that tourism is that important to Cyprus economy anyway

[DT.]

What do you reckon will happen then next year then?

With price hikes at restaurants/bars etc and the recession how will next year fare? The recession will still be with us next year IMO and I think people may opt for different destinations. The Euro is bad now and has been bad for over a year.

What new attractions will arrive for next year? What new offerings or hotels will be built?

If you were CEO of the CTO what would you do?

Not that tourism is that important to Cyprus economy anyway

place your suggestions here, one of my close friends just got placed on the board of CTO. I'll deliver any that make sense to him.

[pissouri]

Tourists will be a little higher than this year. The sandal & sock wearing crowd will be lower than this year, but the 30-40's football crowd will increase as they will definitely not be going to Spain or Portugal as they beat England in the World Cup. Also not be going to France as Anelka used his erect private parts to score an equalizer against England.

Coffee & tea at Larnaca & Paphos airport will increase in price next year to Euro 5, to avoid the cashier (who never smiles) farting around and giving change to people.

[paliometoxo]

i think people will go to non europe countries as they are cheaper

[The machine man]

im sure prices are going up, i was comparing holiday prices not long ago between 2009 and prices published for 2010.. not bad

[sniper]

we don't have any good marketing, and our prices are too high. staff in most tourist places, besides not speaking communicative languages (except for huh eee, etc) are unfriendly; except for personal reasons (which i will not disclose). we will be just as bad next year as we are this year.

Our airport taxes are so unnecessarily expensive, when we spend millions of euros in other countries on billboard adverts when we could have used that money to cover airport taxes for this year of bad tourism and taken down the flights for potential tourists. We had so many potential clientele this year that didn't come because of the over prices flight fares.

that's my uneducated opinion anyhow, considering that our educated officials this year hardly had any ideas, an uneducated opinion could have been the way to go.

[Tim Drayton]

What do you reckon will happen then next year then?

With price hikes at restaurants/bars etc and the recession how will next year fare? The recession will still be with us next year IMO and I think people may opt for different destinations. The Euro is bad now and has been bad for over a year.

What new attractions will arrive for next year? What new offerings or hotels will be built?

If you were CEO of the CTO what would you do?
Not that tourism is that important to Cyprus economy anyway

I would commission serious research into the Gulf Arab market. They should find out exactly what people in this region want when they go on holiday and set out to deliver it. This is a less price-sensitive market than Western Europe.

[sniper]

i would say, training in most hotels is lacking. staff don't care about doing their job, just about getting paid, which i am aware is a general thing that most people do, but if it is one of your main resources of income on a national level then some form of hospitality needs to be practiced to make the clients come back again.
Staff don't know anything about Cyprus, guests ask them about local sites and places of interest and they recommend bar street.
did you know that the hotel stars in cyprus are based on the facilities that the hotel offers rather than cleanliness and service? well there you go, self explanatory.

management in most hotels do not concern themselves with the complaints, problems, nor recommendations of the clients, who by the way have probably stayed in hundreds of hotels and probably know what they are talking about.

[sniper]

What do you reckon will happen then next year then?

With price hikes at restaurants/bars etc and the recession how will next year fare? The recession will still be with us next year IMO and I think people may opt for different destinations. The Euro is bad now and has been bad for over a year.

What new attractions will arrive for next year? What new offerings or hotels will be built?

If you were CEO of the CTO what would you do?
Not that tourism is that important to Cyprus economy anyway

I would commission serious research into the Gulf Arab market. They should find out exactly what people in this region want when they go on holiday and set out to deliver it. This is a less price-sensitive market than Western Europe.

this year most hotels put everything into the russian market, and even more when the UK marked diminished. some hotels looked into a lebanon israeli market, and priced rooms next to nothing. but this market is not so strong as they did not as much money as the other markets would have, but the property marked droned in on them as by buying property over 350 000 they were entitled to residency permits. good sales pitch though for them

[CBBB]

OPEN CASINOS!

The locals instead of going north or using illegal places in the RoC, would use them and we would attract the Middle Eastern lot as well (including the Isrealis).

We would also get all the money back from the Chinese that are here.