The European Commission (EC) recently approved a EUR8 million Cypriot scheme to support tour operators affected by the coronavirus outbreak.
The Cyprus Ministry of Tourism announced that following a relevant international tender, in which consulting companies from Cyprus and abroad participated, the process of preparing the study for the sustainable tourism development of the wider area of Polis Chrysochous and Tillyria and for the establishment of its tourist identity has begun.
Steve Heapy, CEO, Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, commented, “We have taken time to study the global travel taskforce’s framework, and we are extremely disappointed at the lack of clarity and detail. After several weeks exploring how to restart international travel, with substantial assistance and input from the industry, the framework lacks any rigorous detail about how to get international travel going again. In fact, the framework is virtually the same as six months ago.”
Photo Album - World Autism Day
On April 04, honouring World Autism Day, the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Labour, Welfare and Social Insurance and the Ministry of Finance in Cyprus were lit up blue.
On April 01, the government presented a grand project including over 300 actions to revitalise the mountain communities.
On the basis of the results of the Cyprus Passenger Survey carried out by the Statistical Service, revenue from tourism in January of this year reached EUR2,8 million.
Compared to EUR40,2 million in the corresponding month of the 2020, it recorded a decrease of 93 percent, as well as a decrease of 92,9 percent compared to January 2019 (EUR39,6 million).
Ryanair, on March 31 launched its biggest ever summer schedule in Cyprus, with 34 routes in total, including five new routes to Bari, Bologna, Corfu, Rhodes (operating from July) and Venice Treviso (operating from June), which will help boost Cyprus’s air traffic and tourism as vaccination programmes continue and Europe re-opens in time for the summer holiday season.
The Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC) noted with satisfaction the joint statement signed by the heads of five United Nation bodies, on March 25, which calls on all governments to prioritise seafarers in their national COVID-19 vaccination programmes, together with other essential workers, saying that their safe movement is essential to critical goods movement and travel on which the global economy depends for recovery.
On March 29, Yiannis Karousos, minister of transport, communications and works, Cyprus, held a press conference on the presentation of the commemorative stamp for the 50th anniversary of the Cyprus Anti-Cancer Society, at ‘ARODAPHNOUSA’ Palliative Care Centre, Nicosia.
The Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works announces the completion of the 2020 excavations of the jointed polish expedition of the Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw and the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.