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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 13-09-17
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[01] Interior Minister: A just settlement in Cyprus a high priority
[02] Tourism down in 2013, prospects for 2014 better, says CTO
[01] Interior Minister: A just settlement in Cyprus a high priority
Minister of the Interior Socratis Hasikos has said that a just settlement
of the Cyprus problem and the restoration of the inalienable rights of
the refugees is an issue of high priority for the government.
The Minister noted that it is "inconceivable, an affront and outrageous
for all of us to see Turkey`s occupation continue for 39 years and our
country divided and the people remain away from their ancestral homes."
[02] Tourism down in 2013, prospects for 2014 better, says CTO
The economic crisis in Cyprus, which reached its height in March, has
affected tourism in a negative way in 2013, Cyprus Tourism Organisation
(CTO) President Alecos Oroundiotis has said, noting however that the
action taken so far indicates that prospects for the next three years
are better.
Addressing a press conference on the results of CTO's contacts in several
key tourist markets, Oroundiotis said that in the first six months of
the year tourist arrivals were down by 7%, by the end of July they were
down by 8.5% while by the end of August they fell by 5.3%.
The month of August recorded a fall of the order of 3%. CTO expects that
tourism will be down by 4% for the entire year, a result which according
to Oroundiotis is manageable. From traditionally big tourist markets,
there was a downward trend of tourists arriving from Britain and Germany,
he said, adding however that tourists arriving from Russia, the Ukraine
and Israel were up by 25%, 85% and 22% respectively.
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