Europe Sun & Beach 16.10.2017
More than 580 thousand Russian tourists visited Cyprus for 8 months
“Almost 582 thousand Russian tourists visited Cyprus from January to August 2017. It is the second result on the island after Britain”, - informed the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) with reference to the data of the Cyprus tourist organization. "This result is 4.7% higher than in the same period of 2016. According to the number of arrivals, Russians are after UK (874 thousand people). Then in the list are Israel (186 thousand people), Germany (118 thousand) and Greece (109 thousand people)", - the report said. In August this year, according to the local statistics, almost 120 thousand Russians and almost 524 thousand foreign visited Cyprus, which was a record for the island.