This summer is looking to be a busy one for Paphos Airport, with 59 destinations in 21 countries connected through flights by 15 airlines that will gradually exceed 250 per week, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Saturday.

In the last few months, Google searches for tourism-reliant Cyprus topped the respective searches for the island in 2019 when a record 3.97 million tourists arrived for a holiday.

Business owners, entrepreneurs and investors from the Middle East set their sights on Limassol as a second business home location

Cyprus and Estonia share a common outlook on many issues, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday continuing his official visit there, where he met Prime Minister Kaja Kallas in Tallinn.

A minimum national wage by law which is expected to be approved by parliament soon and enforced at a later stage has three exemptions, Philenews reported on Friday.

Tourist arrivals to Cyprus in March 2022 amounted to 128,840, with arrivals for the first quarter of the year reaching 244,705, according to data released on Thursday by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat).

New general health scheme (Gesy) agreed regulations also provide an increased number of physiotherapy sessions to people with brain damage and not only, Philenews reported on Friday.

The 400-capacity ferry MV Daleela will embark on the first passenger maritime link between Cyprus and Greece for two decades, conducting 22 round trips between Limassol and Piraeus this summer with a three-year agreement worth €16.4 million.

The legislation in Cyprus does not give the right to the Labor Minister to transfer the May 1 holiday, which is on Sunday, to Monday, as this will be done in Greece.

Cyprus’ fiscal accounts in the last quarter of 2021 generated a surplus of €37.7 million compared with a deficit of €648 million in the respective period of 2020.