Industry Reports & Trends

A total of 3.75 million passengers, up by 7.2%, compared to the same period in 2016, have gone through Greek airports in the first two months of the year.

Following two consecutive years of record-breaking results, 2017 is turning into another year of dynamic growth for Greece as a global attractive tourism destination, according to Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura.

Bookings for travel packages to Greece are recording an increase of some 70 percent this year compared to 2016, according to the president of the German Travel Association (DRV), Norbert Fiebig.

“The indications for Greece are optimistic, bookings are at a very positive rate at the moment,” the president of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE), Andreas Andreadis, told the Greek Travel Pages (GTP) on the first day of the ITB Berlin trade show on Wednesday.

Global outbound trips are expected to increase by robust 4 percent in 2017, according to the “IPK‘s World Travel Monitor: Global Travel Trends 2016/2017” survey revealed at ITB Berlin on Wednesday.

The Greek passport is the world’s 23rd most valuable travel document, according to an index released recently by the Nomad Capitalist company.

The UNWTO will send a mission of experts to Greece to examine the discrepancy between the country’s international arrivals and tourism earnings in 2016.

UNWTO Secretary General Taleb Rifai says he is by far much more optimistic and full of hope for the future of tourism in Greece.

The Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE) has added a consumer confidence index to its monthly report to identify key markets as well as travel trends.

Greece is making excellent progress in tourism, UNWTO Secretary General Taleb Rifai said to the President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Wednesday in Athens.