larnacaman wrote:Get real,
As i told you .....DONT take my word for anything i have written on your figures. GO ASK those that are and have been directly affected by the decline in Tourism in Cyprus. Perhaps you'll find the real answers that your in denial about ...Who Knows, ....you may even learn something??
You really are the height of stupidity "rastan" ...
Cyprus tourist arrivals rise in March in 15-month first
An
increase in holidaymakers from Britain and Germany helped Cyprus tourist arrivals grow by 14.8 percent in March from a year earlier - the first rise in 15 months, official figures showed Tuesday.
The statistics were a welcome boost to a tourism-dependent economy still battling to come out of recession in the face of the economic woes of its main northern European tourism markets.
Arrivals were 103,803 against 90,434 in March 2009.
For the first quarter ending in March the number of arrivals rose by 5.6 percent from 194,127 last year to 205,006.
Tourism contributes around 12 percent of the island's GDP, and the majority of visitors come from European countries badly hit by the global downturn.
There was a 5.7 percent increase in arrivals from Britain, the island's largest source of holidaymakers, and a 20.1 percent improvement from Germany.
However, these latest figures offer some hope for a better 2010.
Bumper tourism revenues helped Cyprus achieve GDP growth of 4.4 percent in 2007 and 3.7 percent in 2008.
Source; The Independent
