Greece is among the Top 5 preferred countries for intra-European travel in 2021, despite the ongoing coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, a recent report by the European Travel Commission (ETC) reveals. Titled “Monitoring Sentiment for Domestic and Intra-European Travel – Wave 4”, ETC’s monthly report features data collected in December 2020. According to its main findings,
Global tourism suffered its worst year on record in 2020, with international arrivals dropping by 74 percent, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) said on Thursday. According to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, destinations worldwide welcomed 1 billion fewer international arrivals in 2020 than in the previous year, due to an unprecedented fall in demand […]
Cruise travel all but “drowned” in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic which resulted in a 94 percent decrease in passengers, according to the Union of Cruise Ship Owners & Associated Members (EEKFN). More specifically, according to EEKFN data, Greece recorded 267,000 passenger arrivals on 247 port calls across its cruise destinations in […]
Spontaneity will be the word of the year for 2021 travelers as a new global study reveals 89 percent of US travelers intend to be “more impulsive than ever”, following 2020’s cancelled trips. The new “2021 Upgrade” report of Hotels.com has uncovered how this new lust for spontaneity will have a ripple effect on the hotel […]
“One in two commercial businesses will not manage to recover [from the coronavirus crisis] and this confirms our estimation that a third national lockdown could be disastrous,” the Athens Traders Association (ESA) said on Monday. The association presented the results of a survey conducted during the week that followed the reopening of retail shops and shopping […]
Photo source: Amadeus Amadeus, a leading provider of cutting-edge technology solutions for the travel and tourism industry, has revealed five emerging trends expected to drive travel recovery in the post-Covid-19 era. The data was presented on Thursday by Amadeus’ executives Ludo Verheggen and Anna Kofoed during the “Travel Tech Talk – Getting ready for a […]
Photo source: ETC Despite continuing lockdowns, Europeans are progressively interested in trips during the second quarter of 2021 as Covid-19 vaccines are rolled out, the European Travel Commission (ETC) said in its latest survey. According to the ETC, the proportion of Europeans willing to travel during spring 2021 grew by 20 percent compared to the […]
With tourism heavily impacted last year by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, Greece’s revenue from travel receipts dropped by 76.3 percent to 4.24 billion euros – recording a loss of 13.6 billion – during the first eleven months of 2020. During the January-November period in 2019, Greece had counted 17.8 billion euros. According to provisional data […]
The rising performance Greek tourism was recording up until 2019 was cut short by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, according to research findings from 13 reports released by SETE Intelligence (INSETE) that focus on the tourism progress of the country’s 13 regions between 2017-2019. INSETE is the research department of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE). “The
Photo source: WTTC The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) recently said that more than 100 million jobs could return to the global Travel & Tourism sector during 2021, as the world recovers from the crippling coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. According to the WTTC, a strong summer of travel is expected as the sector begins its […]


















