Summer 2023 Passenger Traffic Screening at Cyprus Airports Reveals Insights

Tourist arrivals reached 523,718 in July 2023 compared with 454,657 in July 2022, an increase of 15.2 per cent!

From January to July 2023, arrivals totalled 2.137 million compared with 1.676 million in the same period last year, an increase of 27.5 per cent. Arrivals from the United Kingdom were the main source of tourism for July 2023, with a share of 33.6 per cent at 175,924, followed by Israel with 12.4 per cent or 64,711 arrivals, Poland with 5.5 per cent some 28,957, Sweden with 4.4 per cent or 22,994, while Germany held 3.6 per cent or 19,030 arrivals, and Greece had a share of 3.1 per cent or 16,.092.

For 85.4 per cent of arrivals in July, the purpose of their trip was holidays while 11.3 per cent came to visit friends and relatives and 3.3 per cent for business reasons.