Famagusta hotel occupancy forecast at 80-85% in August
Famagusta hoteliers expect August occupancy of 80 to 85 per cent as tourist traffic improves, while September prospects remain encouraging.
Famagusta, Cyprus. Hotel occupancy in the Famagusta district is expected to reach between 80 and 85 per cent in August, according to Famagusta hoteliers association president Panayiotis Constantinou.
Tourist traffic improved significantly during July and August after losses in the opening months of the season, Constantinou told the Cyprus News Agency.
Tourism markets
Constantinou said the district’s main tourism markets were performing at fairly good levels, with demand driven mainly by visitors from the United Kingdom, Israel, Poland, Scandinavia and Central Europe.
Tourist traffic from Switzerland and the Netherlands had weakened, largely because of fewer flights during the summer season.
Autumn outlook
The outlook for September was encouraging, although Constantinou said there was still ground to be covered.
Last-minute bookings have become a defining feature of the season across Cyprus, making it more difficult for hotels to forecast occupancy further ahead. Constantinou linked the trend partly to developments in the Middle East and said September could record fairly strong occupancy if bookings continued at their current pace.
The outlook for October remained less certain, with hotel capacity still available and businesses hoping reservations would continue to support good, or at least tolerable, occupancy levels.
Some of the district’s larger hotels were also considering extending operations into November.
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