The month recorded 121,576 tourists arriving in the country compared to the 90,339 arrivals
in October 2013.

In the first ten months of this year a total of 1,228,754 tourists arrived in the island recording a 21.5 percent increase from the 1,011,255 arrivals during the corresponding period in 2013.

Most of the tourist arrivals were from Western Europe with 387,215 tourists visiting in the first ten months of this year recording a 13.8 percent increase over corresponding 2013 figures. For the month of October 32,061 tourists, 10.1% more than October 2013, arrived in the island.

Arrivals from North America rose by 11.4 percent with 57,828 visitors for the first ten months in the year while arrivals from Eastern Europe increased 31.1 percent with the arrival of 118,305 tourists. Most of the arrivals from Eastern Europe were from Russia with 53,157 arrivals representing a 51.8 percent increase.

Tourist arrivals from Middle East in the first ten months of the year increased by 14.7 percent to 80,553.

So far this year 229,870 East Asians arrived in the island, recording an increase of 52.3 percent. Number of Chinese tourists arriving in the island rose by an impressive 138.9 percent to reach 106,888. In October alone tourist arrivals from China increased by 138.9 percent with 32,577 Chinese tourists visiting the island.