Slightly up on 2019, the last year before the pandemic, were June travel receipts with average spend per trip at +15.9% offsetting an 11.% decline in travel traffic. In particular, as announced by the Bank of Greece, the travel balance showed a surplus of 2,416.1 million euros in June 2022 and 4,191.9 million euros in […]
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Foreign tourists spend, receipts soar
By Vickys Kourlibini The average expenditure per tourist has increased this year compared to 2019, which raises expectations for a new record this year in tourism revenue, which is estimated to even reach twenty billion euros (from 18 billion the year before the outbreak pandemic). Deputy Minister of Tourism Sofia Zaharaki, speaking to ERT, said […]
‘The amounts spent by travelers on duty free increase compared to 2019’
Optimistic messages for this year’s tourist season also come from the traffic free duty at the country’s airports. As announced by the Minister of Tourism Vassilis Kikilias in the show “Tonight” of Action24 and the journalists Giorgos Pierro and Christina Korai, there is an increase in the amounts spent by travelers in the Duty Free […]
BoG: Expansion of travel receipts by 576.7% in the four months of January-April
A surplus of 432.1 million euros in April and 633 million euros in the period January-April 2022 recorded the travel balance, according to data from the Bank of Greece. It is noted that in the last year before the pandemic 2019, the travel balance showed a surplus of 211.1 million euros in April and 375.7 […]
V. Kikilias: Increase by 100 million euros of travel receipts, compared to April 2019
The data of the Bank of Greece that show the dynamic course of tourism for this year was mentioned by the Minister of Tourism, Vassilis Kikilias, in an interview given to SKAI 100.3 radio. As underlined by the Minister of Tourism, in April 2022 there is a 20% increase in travel receipts compared to April […]
How did air and road arrivals move in the first quarter?
By Vicky Kourlimbini In the first quarter, 741 thousand international air arrivals were recorded compared to 1.2 million in the period January-March 2019, showing a decrease of 48.9% or 489 thousand arrivals. These are data included in the April statistical bulletin of the Institute of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises. The comparison is made […]
Earnings of 302% in travel receipts in February
Travel receipts recorded a new leap in February, rising more than 300%, as did incoming travel traffic, with the travel balance showing a surplus of 63m euros, according to the Bank of Greece. In particular, according to provisional data, the travel balance in February 2022 showed a surplus of 63.0 million euros, compared to a […]
BoG: 309.8% jump in travel receipts in January
The travel balance showed a surplus of 60.8 million euros in January 2022, compared to a surplus of 1.7 million euros in the corresponding month of 2021, according to provisional data released today by the Bank of Greece. Particularly, travel receipts increased by 309.8% in January 2022which amounted to 140.1 million euros, compared to 34.2 […]
BoG: ‘Jump’ 146.7% in travel receipts in 2021
Both travel receipts and incoming travel traffic recorded a three-digit increase in December, the figures for the whole of 2021 improving even more, as shown by the data of the Bank of Greece (BoG). According to the provisional data, the travel balance in December 2021 showed a surplus of 64.0 million euros, compared to a […]
BoG: 308.2% jump in travel receipts in November
Travel receipts jumped 308.2% in November 2021, while for the period January-November 2021 they increased by 144.6%, according to the data announced today by the Bank of Greece. At the same time, the incoming travel traffic increased by 219.3% in November 2021 and by 96.8% in the period January-November 2021. Analytically, according to the provisional […]