Cyprus Tourism Trends: Arrivals, Revenue and Stays to Sep 2026

Cyprus Tourism Trends: Arrivals, Revenue and Stays to Sep 2026

This reference page collects the published statistics behind Cyprus tourism trends as of 29 October 2026. It draws on the Cyprus Statistical Service (CYSTAT), Hermes Airports, Eurostat, the European Commission, the IMF and the Deputy Ministry of Tourism, and every number carries its source, release date and definition. The latest CYSTAT arrivals release, dated 19 October 2026, covers September 2026; the latest CYSTAT revenue release, dated 2 October 2026, covers July 2026.

The page explains how a tourist is counted, shows annual and monthly arrivals for 2024, 2025 and 2026, and sets out revenue, source markets, accommodation type, airport traffic, hotel nights and occupancy, the register of self-catering accommodation, and tourism’s weight in the economy. It reports what named institutions say about the 2026 development and why, in their words and with dates, and it ends with a section on how to read the figures and an FAQ. Percentage changes are shown with their arithmetic.

Cyprus Tourism Trends: Headline Figures and Their Sources

The table lists the main figures used on this page, each with its period, the date of the release it comes from and the publisher. Where a figure is calculated here from published numbers, the table says so. Later sections give the monthly detail and the working.

How CYSTAT Defines and Counts Tourists

Every arrivals figure on this page rests on a few definitions that CYSTAT prints at the end of each monthly release. A tourist is a visitor who stays at least one night in Cyprus. The term tourist arrivals counts trips, not persons, so one person who makes two separate trips in a period is counted twice. Residents of Cyprus are persons who have lived in Cyprus for at least 12 months, or who arrived intending to stay at least 12 months, and their returns from trips abroad are reported separately from tourist arrivals.

The arrivals data come from a Passengers Survey carried out at the points of arrival at Larnaka and Pafos airports, supplemented by administrative sources such as monthly arrivals through the ports. Coverage is all persons passing passport control at ports and airports in the Government-controlled area, and the releases state that travelers who arrive and depart illegally through ports and airports in the occupied part of Cyprus are not included. The revenue series uses a different instrument: a Passengers Survey at the points of departure in Larnaka and Pafos, with personal interviews using an electronic questionnaire, and it defines revenue from tourism as revenue from tourists during their visit.

Release timing matters for reading the latest month of any Cyprus tourism trends series. Arrivals for a month are published around the 17th to 19th of the following month. Revenue lags by roughly two months: July 2026 revenue was published on 2 October 2026, and the CYSTAT release calendar of 23 October 2026 lists August 2026 revenue for 30 October 2026 and October 2026 arrivals for 17 November 2026. Figures published after 29 October 2026 are not included here.

Annual Arrivals and Revenue From 2016 to 2025

CYSTAT-DB holds an annual series of tourist arrivals and revenue from 2001, and the long run of Cyprus tourism trends is visible in it. The table gives the last ten years. Revenue is in current euros, so it is not adjusted for price changes, and the 2020 and 2021 rows reflect the pandemic period.

Source: CYSTAT-DB annual table, retrieved 29 October 2026; the 2025 totals match the 19 January 2026 release and the 2 March 2026 revenue release.

Worked arithmetic for 2025

The arrivals change is (4,534,073 − 4,040,200) ÷ 4,040,200 = 493,873 ÷ 4,040,200 = 12.22%, which CYSTAT rounds to 12.2%. The revenue change is (3,696.1 − 3,209.4) ÷ 3,209.4 = 486.7 ÷ 3,209.4 = 15.16%, shown by CYSTAT as 15.2%. Dividing 2025 revenue by 2025 arrivals gives 3,696,100,000 ÷ 4,534,073 = about €815, which agrees with the €815.16 average expenditure per person that CYSTAT publishes for 2025 (2024: €794.40; the 2025 change is +2.6%). Average expenditure per day was €98.21 in 2025 against €92.37 in 2024, with an average stay of 8.3 days against 8.6 days.

Compared with 2019, the last full year before the pandemic, 2025 arrivals are higher by (4,534,073 − 3,976,777) ÷ 3,976,777 = 14.0%, and nominal revenue is higher by (3,696.1 − 2,683.0) ÷ 2,683.0 = 37.8%. The revenue comparison mixes volume, spending per visitor and price changes between the two years, so it should not be read as growth in real terms.

Cyprus Tourism Trends in 2026 by Month: Arrivals

The table sets monthly tourist arrivals for 2024, 2025 and 2026 side by side. The 2025 and 2026 changes are the percentages CYSTAT prints in each release; the comparison with 2024 is calculated here. Sources: the monthly releases listed in the release register near the end of this page, and CYSTAT-DB.

The pattern has three phases. January and February 2026 were above the same months of 2025 (+8.5% and +9.5%; January to February together +9.1%, 268,141 against 245,860). March and April were below by 30.7% and 27.6%. From May the gap narrowed to 4.9%, then 1.7%, 1.1% and 3.3% in August, and September was 1.8% above September 2025.

Worked arithmetic for the March–April gap and the September change

March and April 2026 together had 139,198 + 303,031 = 442,229 tourist arrivals, against 200,736 + 418,730 = 619,466 in the same two months of 2025. The shortfall is 619,466 − 442,229 = 177,237 arrivals, or 177,237 ÷ 619,466 = 28.6%. For May to September the 2026 total is 455,680 + 489,965 + 582,754 + 581,880 + 580,889 = 2,691,168 against 2,739,464, a difference of 48,296 arrivals or 1.8%. September itself rose by 580,889 − 570,635 = 10,254 arrivals, and 10,254 ÷ 570,635 = 1.80%.

The year-to-date gap of 5.6% follows from 3,401,538 − 3,604,790 = −203,252 and 203,252 ÷ 3,604,790 = 5.64%. Of that gap, 177,237 arrivals fall in March and April, which is 87% of the net shortfall (177,237 ÷ 203,252). The January–September 2026 total is above the same nine months of 2024 (3,268,090) by 133,448 arrivals, or 4.1%. In the monthly series, which starts in January 1976, September 2026 is higher than any earlier September; the next highest are September 2025 (570,635) and September 2019 (524,707).

Cumulative comparison by period

The first-half 2026 total of 1,656,015 is above the first half of 2024 by 3,540 arrivals (0.2%) and below the first half of 2025 by 186,998 (10.1%). The 2023 first-half figure is the sum of CYSTAT-DB monthly values for January to June 2023.

Revenue and Spending per Visitor in 2026

CYSTAT publishes revenue from tourism monthly, with a lag of about two months. The figures below come from the releases for each month, and the percentage changes are CYSTAT’s. Average expenditure per person is revenue-based and covers the whole stay, so it moves with the length of stay and the mix of source markets as well as with prices.

Sources: December 2025, May 2026, June 2026 and July 2026 CYSTAT revenue releases, plus CYSTAT-DB monthly revenue for the months between.

Arithmetic check: the seven 2026 months add up to 74.6 + 85.3 + 85.6 + 197.5 + 355.2 + 423.1 + 536.5 = 1,757.8, and the 2025 months add up to 69.2 + 79.7 + 129.4 + 304.2 + 373.3 + 422.3 + 513.0 = 1,891.1. The change is (1,757.8 − 1,891.1) ÷ 1,891.1 = −133.3 ÷ 1,891.1 = −7.05%, shown by CYSTAT as −7.0%. For April, (197.5 − 304.2) ÷ 304.2 = −35.1%, a larger fall than the 27.6% fall in arrivals because average spending per person was also lower: 651.77 against 726.42 is a change of −10.3%.

In June and July 2026 revenue was at or above the same months of 2025 while arrivals were 1.7% and 1.1% lower. CYSTAT’s July release reports average spending per person of €920.66 against €870.78 a year earlier (+5.7%), and per-day spending of €158.19 for tourists from Israel, €110.46 for the United Kingdom and €92.27 for Poland. Israel accounted for 20.5% of July 2026 tourists against 13.0% of the 2025 annual total, and spending per day differs by market, so the market mix is one input to the average. The releases do not decompose the change any further.

Source Markets: Annual 2023–2025 and Monthly 2026

CYSTAT classifies tourists by country of usual residence, not by nationality. The annual table gives the ten largest markets of 2025 with their share of the 4,534,073 total, calculated as each country’s arrivals divided by the total. Source: CYSTAT-DB annual table by country.

The shares can be checked by division: 1,440,003 ÷ 4,534,073 = 31.8% for the United Kingdom, 588,833 ÷ 4,534,073 = 13.0% for Israel and 373,808 ÷ 4,534,073 = 8.2% for Poland. Israel’s arrivals rose by 588,833 − 425,606 = 163,227 between 2024 and 2025, the largest absolute increase of any market, and the United Kingdom’s rose by 1,440,003 − 1,373,634 = 66,369.

The monthly releases for 2026 show how the mix moved. The next table adds the nine monthly figures of January to September for six markets and compares them with the same nine months of 2025. The monthly values come from the releases listed in the register near the end of this page.

Excluding Israel, the nine-month total was 3,401,538 − 552,207 = 2,849,331 in 2026 against 3,604,790 − 472,489 = 3,132,301 in 2025, a fall of 9.0%, compared with 5.6% for all markets. French arrivals were lower than a year earlier in every month from March to September 2026, by between 27.8% (April) and 48.9% (September), and the January–September total for France is 38.2% below 2025 (43,214 against 69,979 on the table’s figures, or 26,765 fewer).

The monthly path of the two largest markets shows why a single headline percentage hides a lot of movement. CYSTAT’s tables give the following arrivals from the United Kingdom and Israel.

Arrivals from Israel were 1,537 in March 2026 against 28,353 in March 2025 (−94.6%), 15,997 against 63,474 in April (−74.8%), and then 80,343 against 30,246 in June (+165.6%), 119,293 against 76,557 in July (+55.8%), 135,628 against 105,597 in August (+28.4%) and 105,249 against 80,115 in September (+31.4%). The June percentage is large partly because the June 2025 base was low: 30,246 compared with 51,814 in June 2024. The CYSTAT releases state numbers, not causes. The section on what named sources say sets out their statements about the spring months.

Purpose of Visit, Type of Accommodation and Where Tourists Stayed

CYSTAT asks tourists why they travelled. For the year 2025, 3,619,366 of 4,534,073 tourists gave holidays and leisure (79.8%), 593,145 visiting friends and relatives (13.1%) and 316,950 business (7.0%). In 2024 the same shares were 81.1%, 11.9% and 6.9% of 4,040,200. The monthly split in 2026 moved in the spring and returned to its 2025 pattern in the summer.

Source: the monthly CYSTAT releases for March to September 2026, each of which prints the current and previous year’s purpose shares. In absolute terms, March 2026 arrivals of 139,198 at 65.7% holidays imply about 91,500 holiday arrivals, against 200,736 at 69.4% (about 139,300) in March 2025.

Type of accommodation

CYSTAT also collects the accommodation type used by each tourist. The table converts the annual counts and compares 2024 with 2025; the categories are CYSTAT’s, and tourists who used more than one type are counted under the two-type or three-type rows. Source: CYSTAT-DB annual tables by accommodation type, updated 8 October 2026.

Hotels with stars were used by 1,984,672 tourists in 2025, or 1,984,672 ÷ 4,534,073 = 43.8%. Other paid accommodation, the category outside the hotel and hotel-apartment types, was used by 725,077 (16.0%), up from 637,413 in 2024, a change of 13.8%. Owned residence accounted for 169,379 tourists (3.7%). The two-type and three-type rows are the tourists who combined categories during one stay.

Location of stay

CYSTAT classifies each tourist’s location of stay by district or resort area. The shares below are percentages of all tourists. Where this site has a page for the same area, it is linked in the first column; the pages describe property listings and local context, not tourist demand.

The approximate counts are calculated here by multiplying the published percentages by the published total, and they carry the rounding of the percentages. Pafos remained the area with the largest share in both years although its share fell from 31.5% to 28.6% while the total rose from 4,040,200 to 4,534,073. Counted in absolute numbers, 31.5% of 4,040,200 is about 1,272,700 tourists for 2024, so the Pafos count rose by about 24,100 (1.9%) while Larnaka’s rose from about 573,700 to about 698,300. For the wider southern coast, this site’s Southern Cyprus country page links to the individual area pages.

Airport Traffic at Larnaka and Pafos

Hermes Airports, the operator of both airports, publishes monthly passenger totals on its statistics page. The values below are copied from that page as retrieved on 29 October 2026. Passenger counts are not the same thing as CYSTAT tourist arrivals, because they include residents and both directions of travel; the section on how to read the data compares the two.

The calculated January–September change is (10,358,854 − 10,660,831) ÷ 10,660,831 = −301,977 ÷ 10,660,831 = −2.8%. The monthly path mirrors the arrivals data: January and February 2026 were 13.3% and 15.1% above 2025, March and April 15.3% and 16.1% below, and from July the difference was between 0.2% and 1.5% below. Passenger traffic for the full year 2025 was 13,751,247, which is 11.8% above 2024’s 12,295,344 (1,455,903 ÷ 12,295,344).

Source for both airport tables: Hermes Airports passenger traffic page. Hermes states in a media release of 11 May 2026 that traffic across the two airports rose from 6.7 million in 2006 to 13.7 million in 2025.

Route and capacity statements from the airports and carriers

The table lists dated statements from Hermes Airports, with the carrier named where the release names one. Hermes releases are the source for each row except the last, which is Cyprus Mail reporting the Hermes monthly bulletin.

As a check on the Hermes forecast, January–September 2026 traffic is 2.8% below 2025 on the airport’s own table. Hermes’s May indicative figures for daily flights and load factors were about 30 inbound UK flights at 92%, about 20 flights from Israel at 60%, 9 from Poland at 93% and 8 from Germany at 86%.

Hotel Nights, Occupancy and Bed Capacity

The CYSTAT arrivals and revenue releases cited above do not include hotel occupancy. Eurostat publishes occupancy, nights spent and capacity for Cyprus, and its tables are the basis of this section. Eurostat’s dataset of nights spent at tourist accommodation was updated on 22 October 2026 and runs to July 2026.

Source: Eurostat dataset tour_occ_nim, all tourist accommodation, residents and non-residents combined. The January–July change is (8,713,252 − 9,810,945) ÷ 9,810,945 = −1,097,693 ÷ 9,810,945 = −11.2%. The series also splits nights by residence. Nights by residents of Cyprus were 53,312 in January 2026 and 198,922 in July 2026, against 63,218 and 184,373 a year earlier, so the domestic component moved in both directions, while nights by non-residents carried the spring fall: 417,526 in March 2026 against 558,545 in March 2025 (−25.2%).

Eurostat also publishes the net occupancy rate of hotels and similar accommodation, by bedroom and by bed-place. The rates below are for 2024, 2025 and 2026, from the table updated on 20 October 2026.

Source: Eurostat dataset tour_occ_mnor. Because the published bed-place rate for August 2025 is above 100% (105.9%), the bedroom rate is the easier series to compare across months. The Cyprus Hotel Association’s director-general told the Cyprus News Agency on 2 September 2026 that September occupancy was running at around 75% to 80%; that is the association’s statement, not a Eurostat figure.

Capacity source: Eurostat dataset tour_cap_nat, updated 12 October 2026. Eurostat reports all Cyprus capacity under hotels and similar accommodation and shows the holiday and other short-stay accommodation category at zero, so all Cyprus counts sit in the hotels and similar accommodation group. Between 2022 and 2025 the establishment count fell by 72 (806 − 734) while bedrooms rose by 3,938 (46,734 − 42,796), which means the average establishment grew from about 53 bedrooms (42,796 ÷ 806) to about 64 (46,734 ÷ 734).

Self-Catering Registration and What the Statistics Say About Property

CYSTAT’s tourism statistics measure visitors and what they spend; they do not measure income to owners of rental property, property values or the occupancy of individual homes. The connections to property are factual and limited to three sets of data: the number of tourists who used non-hotel paid accommodation (see the accommodation-type table above), the Deputy Ministry of Tourism’s register of self-catering accommodation, and the rules for registering such accommodation. This section sets out the second and third.

Register counts and licensing statistics

The register growth is (8,478 − 4,765) ÷ 4,765 = 3,713 ÷ 4,765 = 77.9%, which the Deputy Ministry’s statement rounds to 78%. The figures above are the reported counts; the 12,000 to 15,000 estimate and the 8,500 licensed figure are the association president’s statements to Alpha TV, relayed by Cyprus Mail on 18 July 2026, and they were stated on a different date from the ministry’s 29 June figure. The same article quotes him saying that occupancy and prices were each lower by 10% to 15% in 2026, which is his assessment and not an official statistic.

What the law requires

Registration of self-catering accommodation sits in Law 34(I)/2019, the Regulation of the Establishment and Operation of Hotels and Tourist Accommodation Law, as amended. The consolidated text on CyLaw lists amendments from 9(I)/2020 to 110(I)/2026. The table summarises the provisions relevant to the register; it describes the text of the law.

Regulation (EU) 2024/1028, on data collection and sharing for short-term accommodation rental services, entered into force on 18 May 2024 and applies from 20 May 2026, according to the European Parliament Legislative Observatory. Its summary describes registration procedures for hosts and units, a registration number for each unit rented, and regular transmission of activity data and registration numbers by online platforms to a single digital entry point in each member state. The Cyprus law assigns the Deputy Ministry of Tourism as the competent authority.

For readers comparing district pages on this site, the pages for Paphos, Limassol, Polis and Nicosia describe the property listings in each area, and the Southern Cyprus page groups them by country. Listing pages in the Paphos district include Demetra Residences, Bellerophon Villas, Amber View and Mare Residences; those pages give each project’s published specifications and are separate from the tourism statistics on this page. The site’s Cyprus real estate market statistics page covers transactions, and the article on what drives the higher-priced segment covers that segment’s data sources. Whether any individual property may be let as self-catering accommodation depends on the conditions in the Fifth Annex above, including its building or planning permit.

What Named Sources Say About Cyprus Tourism Trends in 2026

CYSTAT’s releases give numbers and do not state reasons. The reasons below are therefore reported only as the named institutions state them, with the date of each statement. Statements about the Middle East are quoted or paraphrased from the cited publisher; this page makes no assessment of its own.

Three points can be read across these statements without adding to them. First, the dates line up with the CYSTAT figures: the first statement is from 9 March 2026, and March is the first month with a double-digit fall. Second, the same sources describe a narrowing gap from May, and CYSTAT’s monthly changes of −4.9%, −1.7%, −1.1%, −3.3% and +1.8% for May to September are consistent with that description. Third, the institutions differ on measure: Hermes speaks of passengers and load factors, the hotel association of occupancy and revenue, the IMF and the Commission of macroeconomic effects, and each states its own base period.

The Hotel Association’s first-half revenue loss of 12.3% can be compared with CYSTAT’s January–June tourism revenue of €1,221.3 million against €1,378.1 million in 2025, which is (1,221.3 − 1,378.1) ÷ 1,378.1 = −11.4%. The two use different measures, hotel revenue on one side and tourist expenditure in the Passengers Survey on the other, so the percentages are not expected to match.

Tourism in the Economy: GDP Share, Employment and Travel Receipts

There is no single official figure for tourism’s share of the economy, because tourism is a demand-side concept that cuts across industries. CYSTAT’s national accounts publish value added and employment by industry, and the closest single industry is accommodation and food service activities (NACE section I), which includes restaurants serving residents as well as visitors. The figures below are for that industry only. Sources: CYSTAT-DB GDP table and CYSTAT-DB employment table, retrieved 29 October 2026.

The 2025 shares are 2,321.4 ÷ 34,335.9 = 6.8% of total value added (6.1% of GDP, 2,321.4 ÷ 38,314.1) and 51,111 ÷ 519,694 = 9.8% of persons employed. Hermes Airports gives a wider figure in its 11 May 2026 release, describing tourism as approximately 14% of GDP, without stating the definition. The difference between 6.8% and 14% shows that the share depends on which industries are counted, which is why the industry figures here are labelled for what they cover.

The balance of payments shows what non-residents spend in Cyprus as travel credits and what Cypriot residents spend abroad as travel debits. Eurostat’s quarterly table is below, in millions of euros.

Source: Eurostat dataset bop_c6_q, updated 2 October 2026. First-half credits fell from 1,643.2 to 1,481.3, a change of −161.9 ÷ 1,643.2 = −9.9%, with Q1 at −9.4% and Q2 at −10.0%. Four quarters of 2025 sum to 417.3 + 1,225.9 + 1,749.6 + 890.2 = 4,283.0, which is €586.9 million above CYSTAT’s 2025 tourism revenue of €3,696.1 million; the balance of payments and the Passengers Survey are compiled on different concepts, so they are shown side by side and not reconciled here.

Forecasts by named institutions

Forecasts are not statistics, and each depends on the information available at its date. The two below are the most recent from the institutions that publish forecasts for Cyprus, with the method stated by the publisher.

This site’s Cyprus economic forecast page follows the same macroeconomic forecasts in more detail.

How to Read Cyprus Tourism Trends Data

Several features of the published series affect how a figure on Cyprus tourism trends should be read. They are listed here with examples taken from the data above.

Tourists, travelers and residents returning

CYSTAT publishes three different counts. Tourist arrivals (4,534,073 in 2025) are visitors staying at least one night. Resident returns are residents coming back from trips abroad and are reported in the same monthly release. Traveler arrivals (7,102,208 in 2025) count all persons passing passport control, so they are larger than either. The difference between traveler arrivals and tourist arrivals for 2025 is 7,102,208 − 4,534,073 = 2,568,135, a group that includes returning residents and other arrivals who are not tourists under the definition. Traveler arrivals rose 13.0% in 2025 (7,102,208 ÷ 6,285,427 = 1.130), slightly faster than tourists at 12.2%.

The table shows that residents’ trips and tourist arrivals move separately. In June and July 2026 resident returns were 7.4% and 12.3% above 2025 while tourist arrivals were 1.7% and 1.1% below, so a count of all travelers would show a smaller decline than the tourist count. Both come from the monthly CYSTAT releases.

Trips, not persons

Because tourist arrivals count trips, a visitor who makes four trips in a year adds four to the total. The statistics therefore describe the volume of arrivals and not the number of distinct visitors, and they cannot be divided by the population of a source country to give a share of its residents.

Base effects

A percentage change depends on the earlier month it is compared with. Israel’s +165.6% in June 2026 follows a low June 2025 figure of 30,246, and March 2026’s −30.7% follows a March 2025 that was 0.8% below March 2024. The 2026 versus 2024 column in the monthly table is included for that reason: it shows that September 2026 (580,889) was 14.0% above September 2024 (509,463), while March 2026 (139,198) was 31.2% below March 2024 (202,256).

Revisions, flags and update dates

CYSTAT-DB tables carry update stamps, and different tables are updated on different dates: the monthly arrivals table on 19 October 2026, the annual revenue table on 2 March 2026, the accommodation and location tables on 8 October 2026, and the national accounts tables on 20 and 21 October 2026. CYSTAT marks values with low reliability with the letter u, which appears for several small markets in the January and February 2026 tables. Eurostat tables were updated between 2 and 22 October 2026. A figure retrieved on a later date can differ from one printed here, so each table above states its retrieval or release date.

Passengers, arrivals and nights are different measures

Hermes counted 13,751,247 passengers in 2025, which is 13,751,247 ÷ 7,102,208 = 1.94 times CYSTAT’s traveler arrivals for the year, a ratio consistent with an airport passenger count that includes both directions of travel. For January to September 2026 the airport total is 2.8% below 2025, CYSTAT’s tourist arrivals are 5.6% below, and Eurostat’s nights for January to July are 11.2% below. Differences among these percentages are expected, because each counts something different and covers different periods.

Revenue, receipts and shares of GDP

CYSTAT’s revenue from tourism is built from a survey of departing tourists. Balance-of-payments travel credits are compiled on another concept and are higher in level. The share of GDP attributed to tourism depends on whether the figure is for one industry or an estimate across industries, as the 6.8% and 14% figures show.

Register of CYSTAT releases used on this page

Each row is a CYSTAT press release, with its release date and a link to the PDF.

The January to April 2026 revenue figures in the monthly revenue table are taken from the same CYSTAT series as reproduced in CYSTAT-DB monthly revenue. The release calendar lists the next CYSTAT releases: August 2026 revenue on 30 October 2026, October 2026 arrivals on 17 November 2026, and September 2026 revenue on 30 November 2026 (the last is marked preliminary).

Frequently Asked Questions

How many tourists visited Cyprus in 2025?

CYSTAT counted 4,534,073 tourist arrivals in 2025, compared with 4,040,200 in 2024, an increase of 12.2% (release of 19 January 2026). Revenue from tourism was €3,696.1 million against €3,209.4 million, an increase of 15.2% (release of 2 March 2026). These figures are the base for most Cyprus tourism trends comparisons in 2026.

How many tourists have visited Cyprus in 2026 so far?

From January to September 2026 CYSTAT counted 3,401,538 tourist arrivals, against 3,604,790 in the same months of 2025, a decrease of 5.6%. The same nine months of 2024 had 3,268,090 arrivals, so 2026 is 4.1% above 2024. The September 2026 figure of 580,889 was 1.8% above September 2025 (CYSTAT release of 19 October 2026).

Which months were weakest in 2026, and why?

March and April 2026 were the weakest months in the Cyprus tourism trends series this year: arrivals fell 30.7% and 27.6% against the same months of 2025, and revenue fell 33.8% and 35.1%. CYSTAT does not state reasons. Hermes Airports referred on 9 March 2026 to flights temporarily suspended because of the situation in the Middle East, and the Deputy Minister of Tourism linked the weak March and April results to the Middle East conflict on 17 July 2026.

What does CYSTAT count as a tourist?

A tourist is a visitor who stays at least one night in Cyprus. Tourist arrivals count trips, not persons, and cover the Government-controlled area. Residents returning from trips abroad are reported separately. These definitions are printed in every monthly release, and they apply to all the Cyprus tourism trends figures on this page.

Which countries send the most tourists?

In the Cyprus tourism trends data for 2025, the United Kingdom sent 1,440,003 tourists (31.8% of the total), Israel 588,833 (13.0%), Poland 373,808 (8.2%), Germany 277,905 (6.1%), Greece 176,534 (3.9%) and Sweden 153,224 (3.4%). In January to September 2026 arrivals from the UK were 8.5% below 2025 and from Israel 16.9% above.

How much did tourists spend in 2026?

CYSTAT estimates revenue from tourism for January to July 2026 at €1,757.8 million, against €1,891.1 million a year earlier, a decrease of 7.0%. Average spending per person was €920.66 in July 2026 against €870.78 in July 2025. August 2026 revenue is scheduled for release on 30 October 2026.

How have passenger numbers at Larnaka and Pafos airports moved?

For airport traffic alongside Cyprus tourism trends, Hermes Airports reports 13,751,247 passengers for 2025 and 10,358,854 for January to September 2026, which is 2.8% below the same months of 2025. Hermes stated on 11 August 2026 that it expects full-year 2026 traffic to be between 3% and 5% below 2025 if regional conditions remain favourable.

What do the statistics say about hotels and occupancy?

On accommodation, Cyprus tourism trends in the Eurostat tables show hotel bedroom occupancy of 80.0% in August 2026 against 85.7% in August 2025, and nights spent in tourist accommodation of 8,713,252 for January to July 2026 against 9,810,945 a year earlier (−11.2%). Eurostat counts 734 establishments and 94,894 bed-places in Cyprus for 2025.

How many self-catering units are registered, and what does the law require?

The Deputy Ministry of Tourism reported 8,478 registered self-catering units on 29 June 2026, against 4,765 in April 2023. Under Law 34(I)/2019, self-catering accommodation may be let only if registered, and the registration number must appear in advertising. Operating without registration is an offence carrying up to one year’s imprisonment, a fine of up to €5,000, or both.

Where are Cyprus tourism trends data published, and when is the next release?

CYSTAT publishes monthly arrivals around the 17th to 19th of the following month and revenue about two months after the reference month. Its release calendar lists October 2026 arrivals for 17 November 2026. Airport traffic is published by Hermes Airports and hotel occupancy by Eurostat.

Last checked: 29 October 2026. Sources: CYSTAT press release, September 2026 arrivals (19 October 2026); CYSTAT, December 2025 arrivals and 2025 annual total (19 January 2026); CYSTAT, revenue from tourism, December 2025 and 2025 total (2 March 2026); CYSTAT, revenue from tourism, July 2026 (2 October 2026); CYSTAT-DB: revenue estimates and arrivals of tourists, annual; CYSTAT-DB: tourists by type of accommodation and location of stay, annual; CYSTAT-DB: GDP, production approach, annual; CYSTAT release calendar, October 2026 to December 2027; Hermes Airports, passenger traffic statistics (Larnaka and Pafos); Hermes Airports media release, 6 May 2026; Hermes Airports media release, 9 March 2026; Eurostat tour_occ_nim: nights spent at tourist accommodation, monthly; Eurostat tour_occ_mnor: net occupancy rate, monthly; Eurostat tour_cap_nat: establishments, bedrooms and bed-places; Eurostat bop_c6_q: balance of payments, services: travel; European Commission, economic forecast for Cyprus (21 May 2026); IMF Executive Board press release, 2026 Article IV consultation with Cyprus; IMF staff concluding statement, 4 May 2026; CyLaw, consolidated Law 34(I)/2019 on hotels and tourist accommodation; European Parliament Legislative Observatory, summary of Regulation (EU) 2024/1028; Cyprus Mail, 17 July 2026, Deputy Minister of Tourism; Cyprus Mail, 2 September 2026, Cyprus Hotel Association; Cyprus Mail, 3 July 2026, Deputy Ministry response to the Audit Office; Cyprus Mail, 18 July 2026, self-service accommodation association; Cyprus Mail, 11 August 2026, Hermes Airports bulletin; Cyprus Mail, 20 October 2026, September arrivals; Euronews, 3 July 2026, Audit Office report and Deputy Ministry reply.