An motion plan for changing the misplaced tourism from the Russian and Ukrainian markets is being ready in response to the Minister of Transportation, Communications and Works Yiannis Karoussos, on Friday. The plan focuses on approaching European and Center-East markets to make up for the loss in vacationer arrivals this yr.
Karoussos, who was replying to a journalist’s query following a gathering he had with EIB Vice President Lilyana Pavlova on the Ministry, famous that vacationers from Russia and Ukraine account for over 25% of vacationer arrivals.
“This yr we had been relying on having a yr with numbers much like 2019, for the reason that calculations of associated companies had proven that we might have roughly 90% of the tourism of 2019. We’d have been very shut, if it wasn’t for the warfare,” he stated, including that 2019 was a report yr for Cyprus tourism.
“We now know, that no matter occurs, the Russian and Ukrainian markets are misplaced for this yr,” he famous, including that the Ministry is making ready a plan to advertise Cyprus tourism to markets that can have the ability to change a part of that loss.
“We’re specializing in European and Center-East international locations”, he stated, noting the work carried out on this by the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Tourism.
Karoussos referred to the brand new locations of Cypriot airline TUS, which he described as “a results of good and methodological work carried out in the previous few years.”
He additionally famous that there’s a critical curiosity from airways, in addition to from cruise ships.
“There may be an curiosity expressed by the biggest cruise ships of the world, to make use of Limassol port as a base”, he stated, emphasising the numerous income that comes of this sector, since, he stated, a cruise ship can go away not less than €1 million a day to the financial system.
(CNA)