The sooner the story with the 19-year-old Englishwoman is forgotten, the better for the tourism industry of Ayia Napa and consequently of free Famagusta.
The hoteliers of the area hope that the noise that was created especially after the recent conviction against the 19-year-old, who was found guilty of making a false complaint to the Police about her gang rape, will not harm the tourism of the province next summer and that bookings from the UK will be about the same as last year.
The president of the Famagusta hoteliers, Doros Takkas, stated yesterday that so far there is no travel instruction from the United Kingdom so that the British do not visit Ag. Napa, there is no indication that such a directive will emerge in the future.
He also said that during the big London tourism fair, which took place last November, the case of the young England was not even mentioned by the country's travel agents. "It is a fact that with the recent publications in the British press, after the verdict and the statements of the mother of the 19-year-old, the case had started to take a negative turn for our province", said Mr. Takkas and added: "I believe, however , that after the sentence was imposed on the girl, the matter is over, since even the British Foreign Secretary expressed his satisfaction.
Finally good, all good. If this case continued to play so strongly in the media, it is very likely that we would have suffered a great loss as a tourism industry. What we want now is to forget this unfortunate event as soon as possible. I want to believe that St. "Napa will not have a negative impact on its tourism because of this case."
Regarding the indications and messages arriving from the United Kingdom in view of the summer period of 2020, the president of the local PASYXE stated that due to the upcoming Brexit, it is very difficult to increase hotel bookings from the English market.
He expressed the hope that the traffic will fluctuate around the same levels as last year, which was slightly reduced compared to 2018 and 2017.
Source: larnakaonline