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Famagusta particularly seems to have received a greater stimulus from EMU 64
students than from international tourists, occupying in subsidiary buildings alone
25% of open pre'74 tourist hôtels most of the year round.
The figures however, on the contribution of tourism to the wider economy, are still
impressive (see Figure 4.2 below). Despite the view of other researchers 65 , tourism
has made a significant contribution to income in northern Cyprus.
Figure 4.2 Revenue from tourism in northern Cyprus as a % of GNP and export
earnings (at producer prices).
Source: Ex. revenue, Slat. Yearbooks 1982-90; tourism rev. & GNP, personal communication with Under-Sec. Ahmet Zeki Dulunc, SPO.
Düring the 1970s, 90% of tourists to northern Cyprus came from Turkey 66 .
Lockhart and Ashton 67 revealed that this lack of diversification led to the slump of
64 Eastern Mediterranean University, originally a Higher Technical Institute offering diplomas
équivalent to British Higher National Diplomas in electrical, mechanical and civil engineering, the
institute reopened in 1979 and became the first university in Cyprus 1986. Student numbers in 1991
were approx. 4000, with a total staff of 500 including over 200 academics.
65 "I was struck by the contrast between the obvious (recent) significance attached to tourism in the
media, public pronouncements and the plans of individuáis, and its insignificance in terms of GDP
and numbers of tourists." Scott J. 1995. "Identity, Visibility and Legitimacy in Turkish Cypriot
Tourism Development." University of Kent, Dept. of Social Anthropology, PhD Thesis, p. 1.
66 "The figures published by the Turkish Cypriot State [sic] Planning Office for tourism present a
number of problems. All foreign passport holders entering North Cyprus by air or by sea are counted
as visitors, including permanent residents, foreigners legally working in the country, and (illegally)
Turkish migrant workers... The net resuit of these qualifications is to overstate the number of tourists
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