However, this July marked a decrease of 46% compared with July 2019 when there were 550,971 arrivals.

For the period of January – July 2021, arrivals of tourists totalled 638,292 compared with 320,589 in the corresponding period of 2020, an increase of 99.1%, and a decrease of 70.7% compared with January – July 2019 when there were 2.18 million arrivals.

Arrivals from Russia were the main source of tourism for July 2021, with a share of 28.2% or 83,926 of total visitors followed by the UK with 9.8% or 29,149 arrivals, Poland with 7.6 % or 22,460, Israel with 5.4 % or  16,171, Ukraine with 5% or 14,731 and Greece with 4.7% or 13,957.

For 85%, the purpose of their trip in July 2021 was a holiday, for 11.3% it was to visit to friends and relatives and 3.7% came for business reasons.

In July 2020, 70.6 % of tourists visited Cyprus for holidays, 20.1% to see friends or relatives and 9.3% on business.

Source: Cyprus Mail