Europe’s smaller regional airports managed to salvage 64 percent of pre-pandemic passenger volumes in the first two months of the year, with traffic expected to pick up further this summer but challenges continue to impact the sector, according to key takeaways from the 13th Annual ACI Europe Regional Airports Conference and Exhibition held in Palermo, […]
Travel receipts in Greece increased by 309.8 percent in the first month of the year generated by a 256.7 percent rise in inbound traveler flows, said the Bank of Greece releasing provisional data for January 2022. In the same month, the balance of travel services recorded a surplus of 60.8 million euros up from a […]
Photo source: @ITB Berliln Flexibility, last-minute decision-making, personalization, smart devices, domestic travel and workations are the top trends in tourism as the industry looks to achieve 46 percent growth in 2022, according to data presented at the ITB Berlin 2022 virtual tourism exhibition this week. ITB Berlin and data platform Statista Q estimate that in […]
Photo © GTP Greece is among the countries that may be impacted by the Russia-Ukraine crisis but to a lesser extent due to a relatively small dependence on the Russian market, said a report released this week by travel intelligence providers ForwardKeys. A closer look at the report reveals a low dependence rate on the […]
Total passenger numbers to and from Europe are expected to reach 86 percent of pre-Covid 2019 levels in 2022, before making a full recovery in 2024 to 105 percent of pre-pandemic levels, said the International Air Transport Association (IATA) this week. Overall, IATA expects traveler numbers to reach 4.0 billion in 2024, to 103 percent exceeding […]
Greece managed in 2021 to recover more than half of 2019 tourism revenues and double the number of arrivals by extending the tourism season past the traditional summer months and launching winter and city break campaigns despite the onset of the Omicron variant. According to the Bank of Greece (BoG) report for 2021, the number […]
Acropolis Museum in Athens. Archive photo © Maria Theofanopoulou Tourism-related revenues in 2021 recovered 58.6 percent of pre-Covid-19 levels amounting to 10.6 billion euros, the Bank of Greece (BoG) said this week. More specifically, according to the country’s central bank, the rise in the services surplus is almost “exclusively attributable to an improvement in the
Confidence in travel is growing stronger as countries begin to lift Covid-19 restrictions but more needs to be done to restore full connectivity, said the International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Thursday. In its latest report, the global airline association released data indicating an 11-percentage point increase in international ticket sales sold over the last
Greece is among the top five most resilient destinations for the British seeking to get away for Easter, according to the latest report by travel intelligence provider ForwardKeys. According to ForwardKeys air ticket data, Greece is in fourth spot in terms of Easter bookings in Europe up by 26 percent over pre-Covid 2019 and by […]
Photo source: WTTC The travel and tourism industry appears to be getting closer to recovery this year, the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) said this week, adding that based on the findings of a new study, millions of jobs could be recovered. Citing fresh research, the global travel and tourism sector’s contribution to the world […]

















