A new website will be launched next month to help promote Paphos old town, the head of the Friends of the Old Town Association said this week.

The new website will be up and running next month after a contract to create it is awarded to a local company.

For a number of months, the old town has been actively promoted as a “new brand” in a bid to shake off its old, outdated image and to encourage more people to visit the area.

In 2015 President Nicos Anastasiades announced €60m worth of projects for Paphos, including the regeneration of the traditional shopping centre and Kennedy Square, the restoration of the municipal market, the upgrading of the Markideio theatre, and connecting and enhancing the squares of October 28, Kosti Palama and Dionysios Solomos around the town hall. Most of the upgrading work is finished, but some projects have yet to be completed.

Tens of new outlets have already moved to the area, including artisan shops, tea shops, cafés, bars, juice bars, restaurants, galleries, clothes shops, handicrafts and jewellers, and more are set to follow, he said.

The website, the domain name of which will be confirmed ahead of the launch, will be the place to go to find out everything there is to know about the old town. People will also be able to rate and comment on their experience.