Cyprus: due to lack of tourists the hotels will start to close massively in mid-September
Reducing the list of safe countries in Cyprus will prove to be an additional serious blow for hotels: hoteliers in Ayia Napa and Protaras expect "even harder days". In particular, due to the fact that in group B, tourists from which can get to Cyprus only after a negative test for coronavirus, the other day again got Austria and Switzerland. September and October were usually important months for the tourist sector of Cyprus, with tourists with a higher income than in summer arriving at this time. But the coronavirus pandemic has pushed tourism into a spin, and due to the new closure of borders by European countries in September, no improvement is expected. As explained in the Cyprus Hotels Association, in recent months the island has managed to attract some arrivals from Austria and Switzerland, but both countries have recently been transferred to Group B. And those transferred to group A New Zealand and South Korea, to put it mildly, are not significant suppliers of touris...