{"id":112549,"date":"2025-04-18T20:34:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T17:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lamaisonestates.com\/?p=112549"},"modified":"2025-04-18T20:34:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T17:34:38","slug":"tourist-arrivals-rise-7-5-in-q1-2025-despite-slight-march-dip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/tourist-arrivals-rise-7-5-in-q1-2025-despite-slight-march-dip\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist Arrivals Rise 7.5% in Q1 2025 Despite Slight March Dip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"374\" data-end=\"736\">Cyprus saw a healthy increase in tourist arrivals during the first quarter of 2025, despite a slight dip in March. According to the latest figures published by the Cyprus Statistical Service (CyStat) on Thursday, total tourist arrivals from January to March 2025 reached 446,596, reflecting a 7.5% year-on-year growth compared to the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\" data-start=\"738\" data-end=\"766\">March Sees Modest Drop<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"767\" data-end=\"967\">While the overall quarterly numbers are up, March 2025 experienced a slight slowdown. 200,736 tourists visited the island that month, compared to 202,256 in March 2024\u2014a 0.8% decrease.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\" data-start=\"969\" data-end=\"999\">UK Still Leading the Way<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1000\" data-end=\"1178\">The United Kingdom continued to be Cyprus\u2019 top tourism market, contributing 30.7% (61,545 arrivals) of total visitors in March. Other notable source countries included:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"1179\" data-end=\"1334\">\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"1179\" data-end=\"1218\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1181\" data-end=\"1218\"><strong data-start=\"1181\" data-end=\"1192\">Israel:<\/strong> 14.1% (28,353 arrivals)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"1219\" data-end=\"1257\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1221\" data-end=\"1257\"><strong data-start=\"1221\" data-end=\"1232\">Poland:<\/strong> 9.9% (19,827 arrivals)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"1258\" data-end=\"1297\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1260\" data-end=\"1297\"><strong data-start=\"1260\" data-end=\"1272\">Germany:<\/strong> 8.0% (16,084 arrivals)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"1298\" data-end=\"1334\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1300\" data-end=\"1334\"><strong data-start=\"1300\" data-end=\"1311\">Greece:<\/strong> 6.5% (13,053 arrivals)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"\" data-start=\"1336\" data-end=\"1369\">Why Tourists Came to Cyprus<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1370\" data-end=\"1661\">In March 2025, 69.4% of visitors came for leisure, 15.7% visited friends or family, and 14.7% were in Cyprus for business. That marks a shift compared to March 2024, when 76.0% of visitors came for holidays, 13.1% for personal visits, and 10.7% for business purposes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1370\" data-end=\"1661\"><em data-start=\"312\" data-end=\"372\">Source: Stockwatch.com.cy<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyprus saw a healthy increase in tourist arrivals during the first quarter of 2025, despite a slight dip in March. According to the latest figures published by the Cyprus Statistical Service (CyStat) on Thursday, total tourist arrivals from January to March 2025 reached 446,596, reflecting a 7.5% year-on-year growth compared to the same period in [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":112550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112552,"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112549\/revisions\/112552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaisonestates.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}