By Vickys Kourlibini
Autumn is off to a good start in terms of the number of tourists expected to visit our country. Airline bookings from abroad are still very high, following the performance of August, where we had one million booked seats every week.
In the week that begins, according to the recovery tracker of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises, we have 951 thousand scheduled seats on international flights. Then, in the week of September 5 to 11, an additional 868 thousand in inbound flights.
In terms of the markets with the highest traffic, Germany is ahead and by a narrow margin the United Kingdom, followed by Italy, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Poland and Israel.
The destinations with the most scheduled inbound slots are Athens, Heraklion, Rhodes, Corfu, Thessaloniki, Kos, Santorini, Chania, Zakynthos and Mykonos.
The high numbers of expected arrivals next month also reinforces the planning of the Ministry of Tourism to extend the tourist season and maintain it until the end of the year, a development that will have a significant impact on the tourist basket.
It fills the coffers
As the latest figures from the Bank of Greece show, travel receipts increased by 224.5% in June 2022 and by 329.3% in the period January-June 2022 compared to the corresponding periods of 2021. Compared to the corresponding periods of 2019 , travel receipts increased by 2.3% in June 2022, while they decreased by 5.3% in January-June 2022.
Inbound travel increased by 241.5% in June 2022 and by 360.8% in January-June 2022 compared to the corresponding periods in 2021. Compared to 2019, inbound travel decreased by 11.0 % in June 2022 and by 15.1% in the period January-June 2022.
In particular, in the first month of summer, travel receipts amounted to 2,617.6 billion euros, compared to 806.7 million euros in the corresponding month of 2021. An increase of 3,932.3 billion euros was presented by revenues in the six months, which reached 5,126, 3 billion euros.
Source: Capital
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