TOURISM

    Cyprus is a historical island embodying the ruins of the Great Meditteranean Culture and Civilization. The island among

three continents , in the cradle of different civilizations led to agitational developments because of its strategic location.

Its history provided the island to have a wealthy and peculiar inheritance. The migrations, cultural interactions, art styles,

various religions, and politic movements caused the identity and character of the island to settle. The changes occuring

through years, the present archeological works and historical buildings, ruins of Neolitic and Bronze Ages, Greek and

Rman theaters and temples, Gothic style churches and castles remaining from the British Colonial Era. The T.R.N.C. is

entering the 2000’s with new attempts in the tourism sector. For the development of the tourism sector in the country,

there are short-term and medium-term  projects within the limits of a Tourism Master Plan. The Ministry of Tourism,

together with 5 universities and a research company, is collecting data and searching for investment possibilities. The

tourism income of the T.R.N.C. was 30 million US Dollars in 1977, but it reached to 193 million US Dollars in 2000.

Another important point in statistics is that the number of tourists except the ones coming from Turkey has increased

16 times within this period.