{"id":15444,"date":"2011-08-27T12:09:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T10:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=15444"},"modified":"2011-08-27T12:09:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T10:09:57","slug":"ayia-napa-is-on-fire-not-literally-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/27\/ayia-napa-is-on-fire-not-literally-of-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayia Napa is on fire &#8230; not literally of course"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beta.cyprus-mail.com\/cyprus\/ayia-napa-enjoys-best-year-decade\/20110827\">Cyprus Mail<\/a> reports that Ayia Napa enjoys the best tourism year in the last 10 years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A MASSIVE increase in tourism from Russia, more bookings from Britain and instability in the Middle East have helped kick-start a tourism boom in Ayia Napa which is being lauded as the best year in a decade.<\/p>\n<p>It was announced yesterday that hotel occupancy in Ayia Napa and Protaras reached full capacity during the summer period with the added bonus of the holiday season stretching till November<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>.I&#8217;ve been to Ayia Napa and Protaras a couple of weeks ago and it was obvious that the situation with tourists there is very different from Limassol. \u00a0Crowds and crowds of people on the streets, and everywhere. \u00a0In Protaras it was even difficult to walk through in the evening &#8211; so many people around. \u00a0When we drove back to Limassol, it was empty like a deserted island. \u00a0Someone in the car suggested that that might be because we came back later in the evening, but I disagreed. \u00a0It only takes about an hour and a half to drive from Protaras to Limassol. 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