Industry Reports & Trends

“Athens is and remains the most inexpensive capital city in Europe based on benchmarking data,” the Athens-Attica & Argosaronic Hotel Association said in response to recent reports concerning rising hotel prices in the Greek capital.

The number of foreign tourist arrivals to Greece rose 20.4 percent in the first five months of 2014 in comparison to the same period last year, data from the country’s main airports recently revealed.

Greece will be the top travel destination in Europe this summer, according to the editors of travel guide Lonely Planet.

Six Greek destinations are among the most favorite Mediterranean spots this summer, according to hotel comparison website Trivago.

Greece tops the list of the 10 most popular tourism destinations for the Austrians this year, the Austrian Tourism Press Association recently said in a recent announcement.

The Greek Government’s decision to extend the opening hours of the country’s most popular museums and archaeological sites seems to be paying off as visitor numbers and revenue from receipts showed an impressive increase in April.

With the Holy Spirit Monday approaching on 9 June, the Greeks are getting ready for a long weekend holiday getaway.

Hotels in Athens, Greece, last month reported the largest increase in occupancy on a European level, according to data released by STR Global on the European hotel industry for April 2014.

The Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) has for the third time since December revised its 2014 arrival forecast.

Greece has seen an impressive 21 percent leap in international visitor arrivals in the first four months of the year, according to data released by the Civil Aviation Authority.