{"id":1925,"date":"2025-01-13T03:29:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T03:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/cyprus-targets-more-tourism-markets\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T03:29:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T03:29:37","slug":"cyprus-targets-more-tourism-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/cyprus-targets-more-tourism-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyprus targets more tourism markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1258378\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Christodoulides_Ellis_PIO-320x200.jpg?v=1736711612\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Christodoulides_Ellis_PIO.jpg?v=1736711612\" alt=\"Cyprus targets more tourism markets\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Christodoulides_Ellis_PIO.jpg?v=1736711612\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>Cyprus President\u00a0Nikos Christodoulides (right) with\u00a0Kathimerini English Edition Editor Tom Ellis.\u00a0 [CYPRUS PRESS AND INFORMATION OFFICE]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Cyprus will be technically ready to join the Schengen area within 2025, Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides told a conference organized last Friday by Hermes Airports in Nicosia, titled \u201cTransforming Cyprus into a Year-Round Destination.\u201d It discussed developments in Cyprus\u2019 tourism industry and the need to focus on new markets and year-round growth strategies.<\/p>\n<p>The event was held under the auspices of Christodoulides, who, during a discussion with Kathimerini English Edition Editor in Chief Tom Ellis, also noted that the US and India are crucial new markets for Cyprus, as the country aims to recover from losses inflicted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn April, I will be in the US, visiting three states exclusively to attract investment and tourism from the US,\u201d he said, adding that visitors from the US spend nearly twice as much as Europeans. Furthermore, the republic has strengthened the High Commission in India to improve its engagement with the market, he added.<\/p>\n<p>On expanding into new tourism markets, the president mentioned that Cyprus is opening embassies in Kazakhstan and Armenia and highlighted Poland\u2019s growth as the second-largest market for Cyprus after the UK, a significant rise from a decade ago.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/economy\/1258378\/cyprus-targets-more-tourism-markets\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyprus President\u00a0Nikos Christodoulides (right) with\u00a0Kathimerini English Edition Editor Tom Ellis.\u00a0 [CYPRUS PRESS AND INFORMATION OFFICE] Cyprus will be technically ready to join the Schengen area within 2025, Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides told a conference organized last Friday by Hermes Airports in Nicosia, titled \u201cTransforming Cyprus into a Year-Round Destination.\u201d It discussed developments in Cyprus\u2019 tourism &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Cyprus targets more tourism markets\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/cyprus-targets-more-tourism-markets\/#more-1925\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cyprus targets more tourism markets\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Christodoulides_Ellis_PIO.jpg?v=1736711612","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}