Greek Hotels Support Economy, Jobs in 2021

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Greek hotel turnover in 2021 came to 3.8 billion euros demonstrating the hospitality sector’s contribution to the economy despite Covid-19, a report released by the Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research (IOBE) found. According to IOBE data presented on the sidelines of the “#stirizo_HoReCa alliance” (Support HoReCa Alliance) event, the hospitality and F&B

Visa Agrees with Ministry to Send Digital Nomads to Greece

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Photo source: @Visa The Greek Tourism Ministry is aiming to attract more remote workers as part of an agreement with digital payments company Visa. Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias hopes to attract Visa executives to Greece where they will work remotely as part of the ministry’s ongoing digital nomads initiative. The tourism ministry said Visa can […]

Eurostat: More Overnights Spent in EU in 2021, Greece in the Lead

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Photo source: Eurostat Greece is among the countries that recorded the largest increases in the number of nights spent in 2021 compared to 2020, according to data released by Eurostat this week. The latest data reveals a rise in overnight stays of over 70 percent for Greece, Spain and Croatia, and notes that the overall […]

Visa Teams Up with Greece to Provide Tourism Trend Data

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Visa CEO for Europe Charlotte Hogg and Greek Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias sign the agreement. Visa, a world leader in digital payments, facilitating transactions between consumers across more than 200 countries. aims to contribute to the recovery of the Greek tourism industry by providing data and trends as part of a new agreement with the […]

November 2021 Greek Tourism Revenues Close to Pre-pandemic Levels

By admin 20 Ιανουαρίου 2022 No comment

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Athens, Greece. Photo © Y. Skoulas. Source: Visit Greece Tourism activity in Greece picked up in the last months of 2021, with November revenues exceeding 2020 figures and coming very close to pre-Covid-19 levels and 11-month revenues reaching 10.4 billion euros, said the Bank of Greece on Thursday. More specifically, tourism revenues in November 2021 […]

Greece’s Covid Travel Rules Most Searched For by UK Tourists in 2021

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Greece and its Covid-19 travel regulations were the most searched for terms in 2021 by British vacationers who were eager to travel safely, according to Google data presented by the Independent this week. Searches for Greece’s travel rules even outdid searches for restrictions that apply in the UK, according to data released by the global […]

Report: Athens, Thessaloniki Hotels Gathering Momentum

By admin 3 Νοεμβρίου 2021 No comment

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Hotels in Greece’s two largest cities, Athens and Thessaloniki, were among the hardest hit from Covid-19, managing to recover 39 percent of pre-pandemic overnight stay levels from January to September with resorts achieving higher total revenue per occupied room, according to a report released this week by GBR Consulting. More specifically, according to the GBR

Greece Posts Weak Jan-July 2021 Tourism Revenue

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© GTP Greece’s tourism revenue was down by 62.9 percent in the first seven months of 2021 compared to pre-Covid-19 2019, which was also a record year, according to the SETE Intelligence (INSETE) monthly report released this week. More specifically, tourism receipts in the January-July 2021 period came to 3.383 million euros. According to INSETE, […]

Jan-Aug Tourist Arrivals in Greece Down By 51.2% Compared to 2019

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The number of travelers to Greece in the first eight months of the year remained down over pre-Covid-19 levels to 7.7 million compared to 15.8 million in 2019, according to the monthly report released on Thursday by SETE Intelligence (INSETE). More specifically, according to the research department of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE), international

Greece’s Airbnbs Rival Hotel Room Capacity, Says Study

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Airbnbs in Greece have now rivalled their hotel counterparts in terms of bed capacity, according to a study released this week by SETE Intelligence (INSETE), the research department of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE). More specifically, short-term rental companies such as Airbnb and HomeAway listed 179,000 properties offering 854,000 beds between July 2019 and June