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[Z4]

Tourism in Cyprus is not what it used to be, once you take away the hospitable Cypriot at the service posts and ie waiter/waoitress, barmaid, and replace them with MOURGOUS eastern Europeans something is lost....

Yes

[BOF]

Its Been like that almost every weekend apart from KataKlysmos when those lovely Nicoseans descended.
Same story in Protaras and even Kapparis is dead.
There will be those that sneer We dont need bloody tourists, but of course they arnt the small traders or Hotel owners staring huge losses in the face.

Can't be that bad?

Napa is my local town and judging from previous years it is bad. my neighbour has a small business there and confirms how dire things are.
Went to Protaras the other Sunday and had the same experience of people trying to get you off the street into their restaurants.

[Nikitas]

Good, no more easy money from junk tourism. Time to go back to the bostani and plant some cucumbers to make a living.

The signs of a the decline are when a foreign tout is trying to convince tourists to come in to see a foreign tart spinning on a pole, and drink foreign beer. Local colour my foot! As for those tired dance troupes that go from place to place dancing wedding dances, culminating with the dude with the glasses on his head, now that has to be the epitome of kitschness. Some assholes honestly think that tourists like to see that crap.

[Z4]

Its Been like that almost every weekend apart from KataKlysmos when those lovely Nicoseans descended.
Same story in Protaras and even Kapparis is dead.
There will be those that sneer We dont need bloody tourists, but of course they arnt the small traders or Hotel owners staring huge losses in the face.

Can't be that bad?

Napa is my local town and judging from previous years it is bad. my neighbour has a small business there and confirms how dire things are.
Went to Protaras the other Sunday and had the same experience of people trying to get you off the street into their restaurants.

It's only mid June, the main season hasn't really kicked in yet

[Baggieboy]

The use of Eastern European staff in tavernas and bars was not a good move for Cyprus tourism. Some (not all I hasten to add, as some of them were were / are great) were only interested in stealing money off the customer (and probably the bar owners too). The one they got me on was the old "put the bill in a glass, wait for me to pay it, then come back to the table claiming I'd only given here a 10, and not a 20". Another one tried the same trick the next day, and the Cypriot manager was very unhappy with her when I was able to recite the note's serial number to him from a list I'd written out. Once bitten twice shy. It got to the stage where we wouldn't use bars with Eastern European staff.

[apc2010]

Tourism in Cyprus is not what it used to be, once you take away the hospitable Cypriot at the service posts and ie waiter/waoitress, barmaid, and replace them with MOURGOUS eastern Europeans something is lost....

So true , where is the welcome people got year after year , now different (miserable) face every month , but how many young Cypriots want to work in tourism ???

[Nikitas]

"but how many young Cypriots want to work in tourism ???"

Well, what sector of the economy do these princes and princesses want to work in? BMW demostration drivers? Budding developers? Or the old fallback of the civil service?