Travel receipts increased by 19.7% in October, reaching 2.176 billion euros, compared to €1.82 billion in the same month last year.
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Travel spending surged by 19.7% in October 2024, reaching €2.176 billion, up from €1.819 billion in October 2023.
Passenger traffic at airports across Greece surged during the first 11 months of 2024, setting a new record even before the year concluded.
A considerable number of visitors to Greece now prefer to travel to this country in spring and fall.
Alimos is evolving into a hydroplane hub, as Athens is about to receive seaplanes for the first time after half a century.
In an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency, Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni expressed her belief that tourism revenues are expected to exceed 20 billion euros in 2024.
Athens as a destination city may have not reached overcapacity in the number of visitors, but it presents “tourism fragility” and “sensitivity” in terms of pressure on its infrastructure from recent years’ rise in tourism, a study found.
The sector of tourism “has become the backbone of Greek-Turkish rapprochement and the vehicle that brought our two peoples closer,” Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni said last week, apropos of the Greece-Turkey Joint Tourism Committee meeting in Athens.
At dawn, as shadows linger over the peninsula of Mount Athos in northern Greece, a long line of pilgrims queues in front of a modest office in Ouranoupoli.
The cause of the death of TV doctor Michael Mosley on the Greek island of Symi in June is “indeterminate” and “unascertainable,” an English coroner has ruled.
In no case should the future of Greek tourism be taken for granted according to the industry itself.
European Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism Apostolos Tzitzikostas, speaking at the annual conference of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE) on Thursday, stressed that “it is the first time in the history of the European Union that tourism has been added to the portfolio of a commissioner, which demonstrates the importance that Europe gives to the sector.”
Tourism revenue in 2024 is projected to reach €22 billion, marking a milestone year for the sector, Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni noted Thursday.
Misty landscapes, snow-covered slopes, art, traditional cafés, and mouthwatering food beckon us to explore this charming border town.
Greece is entering a new era. Leaving behind the financial crisis, the country has undergone a profound transformation and is now seen as a rising diplomatic and economic power.
Tourist arrivals in Cyprus reached 3,907,137 for the period of January-November 2024, compared to 3,722,022 in the same period of 2023, recording an increase of 5%.
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