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Arrivals: British offset Russians

21/04/2015 13:06
Tourist arrivals in March 2015 recorded a significant increase for the third consecutive month.

According to Cystat data released on Tuesday, arrivals of tourists reached 97.479 in March 2015 compared to 77.533 in March 2014, recording an increase of 25,7%. In February 2015 the increase was 12.1%.

An increase of 35,5% was recorded in tourist arrivals from the United Kingdom (from 30.368 in March 2014 to 41.149 in March 2015), 50,0% increase from Greece (from 7.038 to 10.557) and 14,6% increase from Germany (from 6.496 to 7.443 this year).

On the other hand a decrease of 3,4% was recorded in tourist arrivals from Russia (7.855 in March 2015 compared to 8.134 in March 2014).

For the period January – March 2015 arrivals of tourists totalled 189.988 compared to 163.436 in the corresponding period of 2014, recording an increase of 16,2%.