More and more Russians prefer this location for vacation.
More and more Russian tourists prefer to spend their holidays in the northern part of Cyprus, which is not recognized by the international community as part of the Turkish Republic.
According to the Turkish-Cypriot newspaper Halkin Sesi, which refers to the Ministry of Tourism of the self-proclaimed republic, this year 127,100 travelers visited Northern Cyprus of the Turkish Republic. In comparison, in 2022, this figure only reached the mark of 97,300 tourists.
Russians who came to the TRNC at the beginning of 2022 were 6,300. In the same year, their number increased to 18,200 tourists.
The publication notes that the Russians are followed by citizens of Iran: last year they were in the northern part of the island 10 600 people, and this year they have already 16 300 travelers.
Also North Cyprus wants to see the residents of Germany and Great Britain. They are the leaders in the number of foreigners vacationing in the country. Germans turned out to be 12 800 people, and the British - 9 400 tourists.
Earlier we reported that the budget vacation in Lebanon seeks to replace Russians familiar and noticeably increased in price resort in Turkey.