Cyprus Tourism

Here you will discover a compact world of alluring beaches and fragrant mountain peaks, vineyards studded with olive trees and ancient ruins that stir the imagination, citrus groves and old stone villages where sweet wine flows as freely as conversations at the local cafe.

A carefree place where a sense of timelessness is magnified by the kindness of the people.

From the establishment of the Republic, tourism played an important role for the islands´economy, while from the 1960s Cyprus became one of the main tourist centres of the Mediterranean, after a rapid and continuous growth.

Cyprus, at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa, is situated in the north-eastern corner of the Mediterranean Sea, 75km south of Turkey, 90km west of Syria and 380km east of the Greek island of Rhodes. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean after Sicily and Sardinia, with an area of 9.251 sq km.

Because of the appropriateness of Cyprus´ product, it´s geographic position and climatic conditions, it has the ability of serving a variety of special interests, while at the same time enriching with the special facilities that it offers from tourist experience of holiday-makers who come to the island for the sun and the sea.

Based on the Strategic Plan for Tourism, up to 2010 there will be particular emphasis for the growth of special forms of tourism, such as Conferences, Cultural Tourism, Athletic Tourism, Walk and Cycling Tourism, Cruises.

Particularly in areas of Cultural Tourism, Cyprus aims to advertise unique characteristics and sights, owed to it´s history of 11 millennia and to it´s position as the crossroad of three continents.

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Cyprus Tourism