Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Russian tourist arrivals in Cyprus to rise by up to 15% in 2006

Russian tourism is expected to increase by 10-15%in 2006 to with well over 100,000 arrivals expected, the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) said yesterday.

The Russian market is the third most important for Cyprus after Germany and the UK . Nearly 98,000 Russians holidayed in Cyprus last year, up 16.5% after a decline over the previous year,

“We saw all of the big Russian tour operators today,” said the CTO spokesman who is in Moscow for the MITT travel fair, which begins today and ends on Saturday. “It seems we will have some good results from Russia this year.”

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