{"id":629,"date":"2026-03-08T15:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/?p=629"},"modified":"2026-03-08T15:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:01:16","slug":"cyprus-is-a-safe-destination-tourism-dep-minister-insists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"Cyprus is a safe destination, tourism Dep. minister insists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Cyprus \u201cwas, is, and will always be a safe destination\u201d<\/strong> for tourism, Tourism Deputy Minister Costas Koumis said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He was speaking on the sidelines of the day\u2019s Cyprus Marathon, which was held in Paphos, and said that the marathon in and of itself \u201cis a very important message, that tourism activity in our country continues unhindered\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Regarding the potential impact on Cyprus\u2019 tourism industry that the ongoing conflict in the Middle East may have, he said that \u201cit is too early to make firm estimates regarding the course of the year in terms of tourism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201c<strong style=\"text-align: justify\">We are only on the seventh day of a new conflict which does not concern Cyprus<\/strong>. Cyprus has never been part of this equation. Our role is very different, and very supportive for peace to prevail,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He then added that in recent days, \u201cthere have been some impacts on tourism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201c<strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Tourism has already been affected, at least these days<\/strong>,\u201d he said, pointing out the ongoing cancellations of flights in and out of Cyprus\u2019 airports, and also saying there has been a \u201cslowdown in bookings\u201d of tourist accommodation in Cyprus for the weeks and months ahead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">With this in mind, he said that \u201cwe are now dependent on the course of events and the escalation of the conflict\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyprus \u201cwas, is, and will always be a safe destination\u201d for tourism, Tourism Deputy Minister Costas Koumis said on Sunday. He was speaking on the sidelines of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}