Tourists who visited the country in the first half of the year reached 8 million (7.983 million) compared to 1.7 million in the corresponding period of 2021
Inbound tourist traffic registered a significant increase in June. According to the data of the Bank of Greece, the incoming travel traffic increased by 241.5% in June 2022 and by 360.8% in the period January-June 2022 compared to the corresponding period of 2021. However, compared to the corresponding periods of 2019, inbound travel traffic decreased by 11% in June 2022 and by 15.1% in the period January-June 2022.
More specifically, the tourists who visited the country in the first half of the year reached 8 million (7.983 million) compared to 1.7 million in the corresponding period of 2021. In particular, travel traffic through airports increased by 428.9%, while that through road stations by 247.9%. In the period under review, travel traffic from EU-27 countries amounted to 4.792 million travelers, showing an increase of 305.2% compared to the corresponding period in 2021, while travel traffic from non-EU-27 countries increased by 480.3% and amounted to 3.190 million travelers. Travel traffic from euro area countries increased by 345.3%, while travel traffic from EU-27 countries outside the euro area increased by 221.6%.
In particular, travel traffic from Germany showed an increase by 316.4% and amounted to 1,422.5 thousand travelers, while that from France increased by 315.4% and amounted to 530.4 thousand travelers. In relation to countries outside the EU-27, travel traffic from the United Kingdom increased by 1,251.9% to 1,218.1 thousand travelers, while that from the USA increased by 745.9% to 324.8 thousand travelers. Finally, travel traffic from Russia increased by 318.4% and amounted to 16.0 thousand travelers.
In relation to him June 2019, the last year before the pandemic – June 2022 saw travel receipts increase by 2.3%, average spend per trip increase by 15.9%, while inbound travel fell by 11%. Compared to the period January-June 2019, in the period January-June 2022 travel receipts showed a decrease of 5.3% and inbound travel traffic by 15.1%, while the average expenditure per trip increased by 12.6%.
The above developments resulted in travel receipts showing an increase of 329.3% compared to the corresponding period of 2021 and were formed at 5, formed at 5,126.3 million euros. This development is due to the increase in receipts from residents of EU-27 countries by 263.7%, which amounted to 2,980.9 million euros, as well as receipts from residents of non-EU-27 countries by 462.4 %, which amounted to 2,029.0 billion euros. In more detail, receipts from residents of the euro area countries amounted to 2,476.7 billion euros, increased by 281.3%, while receipts from residents of the EU-27 countries outside the euro area showed an increase of 196.3 % and amounted to 504.2 million euros.
In particular, receipts from Germany increased by 264.6% and amounted to 1,086.1 million euros, while receipts from France increased by 247.9% and amounted to 378.8 million euros. From the countries outside the EU-27, receipts from the United Kingdom showed an increase of 873.6%, which amounted to 792.7 million euros. Receipts from the US increased by 450.1% to €336.7 million, while those from Russia increased by 115.7% to €13.9 million.
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