ARRIVALS OF TOURISTS

BY COUNTRY OF USUAL RESIDENCE

Country of usual YEAR

residence 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000

ALL COUNTRIES 2,172,998 2,141,193 2,403,750 2,416,081 2,400,924 2,470,063 2,349,012 2,303,247 2,418,238 2,696,732 2,686,205

EUROPE 2,017,588 2,008,622 2,267,501 2,270,185 2,273,688 2,334,392 2,226,228 2,180,228 2,283,625 2,554,887 2,509,449
Belgium 24,125 22,966 26,368 23,174 24,267 22,879 20,719 20,101 23,098 28,980 39,462
Bulgaria 8,905 8,922 10,675 10,088 3,765 3,408 2,486 3,446 2,619 2,588 3,995
Czech Republic 15,458 20,477 20,027 20,972 18,764 14,580 18,740 13,082 13,826 9,895 13,412
Denmark 30,335 29,667 38,216 34,759 30,802 29,547 30,281 28,517 31,805 33,015 34,591
Germany 139,190 131,161 132,058 138,451 152,808 182,689 161,574 129,034 173,718 214,153 233,687
Estonia 970 2,077 1,884 894 1,456 911 731 219 1,238 1,158 1,801
Greece 127,667 131,875 133,015 139,815 126,768 130,156 133,407 110,226 93,225 89,763 100,105
Spain 3,959 3,072 3,641 4,118 4,218 4,912 5,402 2,828 2,913 2,695 3,003
France 28,749 26,187 36,099 41,394 37,779 52,783 46,798 31,419 29,545 32,829 36,587
Ireland 10,527 18,537 23,632 35,875 47,463 52,711 44,292 61,571 56,654 51,881 36,192
Italy 12,992 15,604 16,859 19,225 17,865 20,202 20,681 13,381 12,185 21,910 27,238
Latvia 1,825 1,538 2,150 3,183 3,074 2,754 846 491 573 870 683
Lithuania 2,546 1,423 2,294 3,181 2,792 1,501 787 356 1,564 370 297
Luxembourg (1) 3,374 3,020 4,355 4,671 869 657 681 495 1,111 2,027 922
Hungary 10,721 9,700 9,641 10,086 11,458 11,174 11,150 8,760 8,080 8,523 11,295
Malta 4,358 6,154 3,421 3,266 2,581 1,998 2,077 1,606 1,219 744 693
Netherlands 34,212 30,996 26,302 26,650 28,210 29,493 32,234 32,008 39,788 50,747 55,433
Austria 21,559 27,463 26,620 24,359 23,788 36,988 28,643 25,894 29,053 31,035 40,999
Poland 18,439 17,186 20,358 16,669 13,707 14,904 16,962 11,764 19,520 25,146 29,593
Portugal 1,161 1,106 855 1,148 1,202 1,378 1,302 429 715 779 853
Romania 19,980 19,931 20,346 14,527 7,032 4,980 4,047 3,529 3,163 3,295 3,716
Slovenia 1,046 953 1,541 1,939 1,273 1,029 625 477 1,017 1,128 2,191
Slovakia 5,061 3,719 5,048 5,179 5,055 5,241 4,968 3,721 3,941 1,805 3,532
Finland 32,886 32,758 32,333 21,461 30,333 29,290 31,676 28,865 45,443 48,758 41,953
Sweden 109,746 108,253 124,948 120,989 94,028 88,125 83,964 86,824 99,753 127,419 127,498
United Kingdom 996,046 1,069,196 1,242,655 1,282,873 1,360,136 1,391,849 1,332,852 1,347,043 1,337,646 1,486,703 1,362,913
Other European 351,738 264,666 302,146 261,239 222,195 198,253 188,303 214,142 250,213 276,671 296,805
Iceland 144 223 281 257 123 227 484 1,041 356 2,779 346
Norway 63,347 60,245 63,470 53,442 50,664 48,281 50,706 56,098 57,706 61,620 60,127
Switzerland (2) 41,744 38,755 38,603 41,543 41,559 40,287 41,292 37,619 64,691 76,912 79,202
Russia 223,861 148,740 180,926 145,921 114,763 97,600 83,818 105,050 108,821 116,496 129,889
Turkey 321 116 135 246 254 228 213 65 99 250 173
Georgia 146 195 95 204 316 122 209 107 462 211 352
Belarus 3,507 2,186 2,125 2,405 1,933 1,612 1,071 1,923 1,777 2,286 3,661
Ukraine 11,766 7,496 8,847 8,729 6,374 5,083 5,778 6,673 8,558 7,141 9,361
Serbia 3,431 3,678 3,322 2,817 … … … … … … …
Fed. Rep. Of Yugoslavia … … … … 3,170 2,855 3,093 3,095 5,168 5,774 9,135
Czechoslovakia … … … … … … … … … … …
Soviet Union … … … … … … … … … … …
East Europe … … … … … … … … … … …
Russia and ex Soviet Union Countries … … … … … … … … … … …
Other 3,465 3,028 4,337 5,658 3,022 1,940 1,639 2,471 2,575 3,202 4,559

AFRICA 11,115 12,318 12,336 13,303 11,446 13,047 9,982 12,537 13,296 14,516 16,420
South Africa 4,816 5,623 6,249 5,506 4,882 5,816 4,053 5,460 5,548 5,662 7,406
Maghreb countries 489 661 643 718 736 688 536 701 643 631 908
Egypt 4,324 5,067 4,351 5,706 4,441 5,470 4,686 5,296 6,029 6,820 5,586
Other 1,485 965 1,092 1,372 1,386 1,071 707 1,080 1,076 1,403 2,520

AMERICA 31,366 23,743 27,784 30,361 26,353 28,991 22,924 23,246 26,734 30,186 38,738
Total North America 29,767 22,743 26,744 29,493 25,430 28,395 22,350 22,613 25,971 29,158 36,175
United States 22,719 17,921 21,117 23,744 20,048 22,051 18,196 18,097 20,566 23,298 28,430
Canada 6,822 4,698 5,512 5,625 5,194 6,222 4,007 4,386 5,260 5,766 7,376
Other 225 123 114 124 188 121 147 130 145 94 369

Total South & Central America 1,599 999 1,039 868 922 595 574 633 763 1,028 2,563

ASIA 97,699 85,237 83,650 90,395 76,011 81,536 78,394 77,556 85,235 86,996 106,772
Gulf Countries 19,914 23,460 24,366 23,909 16,733 14,112 15,053 16,940 16,158 16,376 18,728
Kuwait 1,480 2,544 4,049 5,546 1,612 1,531 1,826 2,844 2,792 2,551 3,689
Bahrain 2,184 2,970 2,790 2,297 1,799 1,249 1,993 2,332 1,875 1,773 1,686
United Arab Emirates 11,832 14,197 12,853 10,705 8,154 6,627 6,294 5,979 5,634 5,940 5,317
Saudi Arabia 2,463 2,071 2,978 3,873 3,874 3,852 3,953 4,915 4,919 5,358 6,843
Other Gulf 1,952 1,676 1,694 1,488 1,290 851 985 867 936 751 1,190
Jordan 3,575 4,040 3,071 3,567 3,892 4,303 4,342 6,476 4,562 4,881 6,944
Iran 4,336 3,627 1,799 2,731 2,213 1,205 536 1,558 1,492 5,817 5,937
Iraq 358 89 58 164 261 172 157 282 143 128 91
Israel 37,876 31,364 32,034 34,205 34,197 40,940 36,917 27,206 39,943 36,678 44,404
Lebanon 20,664 15,431 14,192 14,635 11,442 13,762 14,575 16,993 15,203 14,270 15,270
Syria 1,626 1,455 1,392 2,143 1,896 1,559 1,915 2,754 2,230 2,301 4,186
China 655 441 722 692 403 424 482 525 305 414 512
Japan 1,194 560 354 630 518 540 545 558 375 603 1,325
South Korea 144 60 0 136 49 51 12 25 146 327 171
Arab Countries … … … … … … … … … … …
Middle East … … … … … … … … … … …
Other 7,353 4,705 5,657 7,578 4,403 4,463 3,860 4,242 4,680 5,204 9,207

OCEANIA 14,183 11,030 12,200 11,548 12,759 11,535 9,917 8,692 8,570 9,218 12,706
Australia 13,282 10,523 11,506 10,742 12,061 10,761 9,295 7,881 8,252 8,499 10,993
New Zealand 857 473 654 805 665 748 599 810 318 718 1,612
Other 43 33 40 0 33 25 22 0 0 0 100

NOT STATED 1,044 241 276 285 664 559 1,567 986 775 926 2,117

Note: As from 1987 figures have been revised to exclude tourists who did not spent the night in Cyprus
(1) For the years 1980-1998 Luxembourg was included in Belgium
(2) From 1999 onwards Lichtenstein is to be included in Switzerland

(Last Updated 03/03/2011)

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