Cyprus’s Statistical Service recently uploaded the new Tourist arrival data (updated 16/06/2014) showing the arrivals to Cyprus by Country of usual residence.
Russian tourist arrivals to Cyprus in May 2014 was 88,426 up 13% from 2013’s 76.776 arrivals.
This means that the estimation announced by the CTO earlier this year of having a total of 800,000 arrivals from Russia seems to be correct.
Below is an extract of the data presented by CYSTATS – Download the full xls Here
| Country | January | February | March | April | May |
| ALL COUNTRIES | 40,675 | 45,227 | 77,533 | 180,998 | 293,181 |
| EUROPE | 34,555 | 39,408 | 68,975 | 168,638 | 277,384 |
| E. U. Countries (28) | 27,492 | 32,834 | 57,259 | 125,149 | 168,331 |
| Belgium | 679 | 1,003 | 2,044 | 3,018 | 2,579 |
| Bulgaria | 341 | 391 | 471 | 866 | 836 |
| Croatia | 79 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 36 |
| Czech Republic | 0 | 151 | 190 | 365 | 1,086 |
| Denmark | 115 | 43 | 60 | 1,694 | 3,623 |
| Germany | 1,152 | 2,162 | 6,496 | 10,465 | 8,564 |
| Estonia | 0 | 54 | 9 | 235 | 60 |
| Greece | 6,421 | 6,254 | 7,038 | 10,374 | 9,083 |
| Spain | 205 | 118 | 185 | 252 | 168 |
| France | 656 | 753 | 1,602 | 3,322 | 3,146 |
| Ireland | 36 | 57 | 93 | 416 | 213 |
| Italy | 1,000 | 912 | 1,575 | 912 | 1,661 |
| Latvia | 71 | 181 | 195 | 464 | 593 |
| Lithuania | 177 | 289 | 397 | 1,141 | 1,266 |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0 | 20 | 280 | 0 |
| Hungary | 197 | 225 | 326 | 430 | 550 |
| Malta | 99 | 109 | 168 | 131 | 177 |
| Netherlands | 89 | 98 | 620 | 2,227 | 2,682 |
| Austria | 236 | 610 | 531 | 1,759 | 2,083 |
| Poland | 1,055 | 1,127 | 1,239 | 1,944 | 2,268 |
| Portugal | 66 | 15 | 15 | 77 | 79 |
| Romania | 1,082 | 918 | 991 | 1,883 | 2,100 |
| Slovenia | 0 | 42 | 33 | 59 | 68 |
| Slovak Republic | 44 | 100 | 193 | 121 | 342 |
| Finland | 215 | 121 | 207 | 2,765 | 3,694 |
| Sweden | 403 | 897 | 2,181 | 6,382 | 15,299 |
| United Kingdom | 13,063 | 16,172 | 30,368 | 73,556 | 106,063 |
| Total EFTA | 1,334 | 1,516 | 2,183 | 6,738 | 12,082 |
| Iceland | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Norway | 963 | 1,096 | 1,081 | 3,308 | 8,297 |
| Switzerland (incl. Liechten.) | 370 | 397 | 1,102 | 3,429 | 3,784 |
| Total Other European | 5,728 | 5,056 | 9,531 | 36,750 | 96,970 |
| Russia | 4,838 | 4,084 | 8,134 | 32,430 | 88,426 |
| Turkey | 30 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Belarus | 72 | 95 | 225 | 848 | 1,954 |
| Ukraine | 579 | 626 | 958 | 3,030 | 5,994 |
| Serbia | 110 | 110 | 158 | 345 | 362 |
| Other | 98 | 121 | 54 | 94 | 232 |
| AFRICA | 701 | 451 | 447 | 758 | 895 |
| South Africa | 240 | 181 | 123 | 135 | 320 |
| Maghreb Countries | 21 | 11 | 11 | 51 | 0 |
| Egypt | 379 | 239 | 247 | 408 | 500 |
| Other | 60 | 19 | 65 | 163 | 73 |
| AMERICA | 1,017 | 988 | 1,300 | 1,549 | 2,521 |
| Total North America | 1,017 | 973 | 1,159 | 1,477 | 2,478 |
| United States | 855 | 774 | 945 | 1,104 | 2,009 |
| Canada | 162 | 199 | 213 | 372 | 426 |
| Other North America | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 |
| Total South and Central | |||||
| America | 0 | 14 | 140 | 72 | 42 |
| ASIA | 4,018 | 4,055 | 6,395 | 9,608 | 10,918 |
| Gulf Countries | 1,027 | 1,153 | 1,414 | 2,251 | 2,413 |
| Kuwait | 58 | 92 | 102 | 157 | 111 |
| Bahrain | 29 | 63 | 39 | 93 | 135 |
| United Arab Emirates | 608 | 747 | 992 | 1,464 | 1,784 |
| Saudi Arabia | 115 | 76 | 99 | 200 | 158 |
| Other Gulf | 215 | 172 | 180 | 334 | 223 |
| Georgia | 0 | 57 | 58 | 56 | 0 |
| Jordan | 151 | 182 | 298 | 367 | 333 |
| Iran | 0 | 0 | 1,069 | 18 | 182 |
| Iraq | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 57 |
| Israel | 1,653 | 1,566 | 2,229 | 4,357 | 6,020 |
| Lebanon | 892 | 825 | 903 | 1,958 | 1,515 |
| Syria | 9 | 62 | 0 | 49 | 14 |
| China (incl. Hong Kong) | 129 | 57 | 103 | 122 | 18 |
| Japan | 34 | 0 | 98 | 115 | 0 |
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Other | 121 | 149 | 218 | 259 | 363 |
| OCEANIA | 382 | 324 | 400 | 428 | 1,432 |
| Australia | 346 | 303 | 369 | 402 | 1,380 |
| New Zealand | 36 | 21 | 15 | 26 | 51 |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 |