by Vicky Kourloubini
Tourist traffic is taking off and this week alone the arrivals from abroad are expected to approach one million. According to the INSET recovery tracker data, from August 15 to 21, 960 thousand seats are scheduled on incoming international flights.
The momentum of arrivals remains high throughout the month, with next week’s scheduled air seats reaching 957 thousand.
First in the arrivals for the whole of August are British tourists, followed by the markets of Germany, Italy, France, Holland, Switzerland, Austria and Poland.
Accordingly, the airports with the highest tourist traffic are Athens, Heraklion, Rhodes, Corfu, Thessaloniki, Kos, Chania, Santorini, Zakynthos and Mykonos.
Closer to the record
The performance recorded in the tourist destinations throughout the summer brings closer the target for a new record this year in revenue, which is expected to reach twenty billion.
As the Ministry of Tourism notes, the markets of Germany and Britain moved this year in July above July 2019 in many destinations such as Rhodes, where the Germans are more by 24.6% and the British by 21%. In Chania, German tourists are at +78.3% and British at +43.2%.
At the same time, at the “Eleftherios Venizelos” airport in July 2022 compared to July 2019 we had 29% more arrivals from Germany, 15% from France, from Israel 19% from Serbia 257% and from Turkey 177%.
According to estimates, if things go relatively smoothly, tourism revenue will surpass 2019’s revenue, when 18 billion had flowed into the tourism basket.
The latest figures from Fraport Greece are indicative of the increased tourist flow from abroad. At the level of 7 months (January – July), the performance of 2019 was almost equalized, as this year 16.21 million passengers were transported compared to 16.25 million passengers in the corresponding period of 2019, i.e. a decrease of only 0.2%.
In July, 5.91 million passengers were handled at the 14 regional airports of Fraport Greece, marking an increase of 11.1% compared to 2019 and 64.8% compared to last year.
Source: Capital
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