Georgios Georgiou and Paul Tugwell, Bloomberg
Tourism is Cyprus’s largest industry and soon new attractions such as City of Dreams Mediterranean will open. Cyprus sure deserves a dedicated tourism minister to ensure sustainability for this important part of the economy.
11 months ago
Georgios Georgiou, Bloomberg
Melco's challenge is less about getting Asian tourists, such as the massive Chinese market, to recognize its brand in Europe than it is to convince them to take long-haul trips to casinos when they have options much closer to home.
2 years ago
Georgios Georgiou and Paul Tugwell, Bloomberg
Cyprus is seeing a surge in visitation from tourists avoiding European and Middle Eastern destinations where terrorist activity has taken place recently.
3 years ago
Dan Peltier, Skift
Tourists can, over time, negatively impact a destination but these findings from Cyprus show it's not all bad news when it comes to spending.
4 years ago
Menelaos Hadjicostis, Associated Press
Cyprus Airways’ financial struggles are symbolic of many small European carriers’ struggles to compete with larger private airlines now investing in low-cost products and expanded route networks.
5 years ago
Menelaos Hadjicostis , Associated Press
Cyprus Airways only had about 10 percent market share so the impact won't be devastating to the island's business links and tourism. The airline's brand may get resurrected under a different structure.
5 years ago
Associated Press
The Alps' pain is similar to that of tour companies hit hard when China cut down on graft and fraud, and it's difficult to root for matters to return to normal.
5 years ago
Kari Lundgren, Bloomberg
Ryanair continues to adjust its business model and goals to mature from the cheapest of European airlines to one that flyers appreciate for its fares and service.
5 years ago
Paul Tugwell, Bloomberg
Creating a comfortable environment for Russian financial tourists helped create Cyprus' current problems, so it would appear to be a questionable decision to pin recovery hopes on a similar type of traveler.
6 years ago
Associated Press
Cyprus' fondness for easy money and lax rules got it into the current mess, and banking its future on gambling seems to be yet another get-rich-quick scheme.
7 years ago
Mary Dejevsky, The Daily Telegraph
Cyprus needs to shed its image as the place where rich people go to avoid paying their fair share, and been up on its promise of treating everyone equa.
7 years ago
Patrick Collinson, Guardian
The British slowed their visits to Cyprus before the financial crisis; for them it was as much about not wanting to bend to the tastes of the new Russian travelers than it was vacationing in a destination hit hard by the euro crisis.
7 years ago
