More than 32.7 million tourists visited our country last yearas a result receipts from tourism to reach 20.5 billion euros.

In more detail, according to data from the Bank of Greece, travel receipts showed an increase of 15.7% compared to 2022 and amounted to 20,459.5 billion euros.

This development is due to an 11.5% increase in receipts from residents of the EU-27 countries, which amounted to 11,158.3 million euros, as well as receipts from residents of countries outside the EU-27 by 18.5%, which amounted to 8,591 billion euros. Specifically, receipts from residents of the euro zone countries amounted to 9,058.9 billion euros, increased by 12.4%, while receipts from residents of the EU-27 countries outside the euro zone showed an increase of 7.8 % and amounted to 2.099 billion euros. Particularly, receipts from Germany increased by 9.5% to €3.563 billion, while receipts from France increased by 11.6% and amounted to 1.425 billion. euro. Of the non-EU-27 countries, receipts from the United Kingdom rose by 5.8% to €3.307 billion, as did receipts from the US, which rose by 14.0% to €3.307 billion. to 1.367 billion euros. End, receipts from Russia decreased by 20.8% and amounted to 32.8 million euros.

In terms of travel traffic, registered an increase of 17.6% and amounted to 32.7 million travelers, against 27.8 million travelers in 2022. In particular, travel traffic through airports increased by 12.7%, while this through road border stations by 34.9%. Travel traffic from EU-27 countries amounted to 19.65 million travelers, showing an increase of 15.6% compared to 2022, while travel traffic from non-EU-27 countries increased by 20.8% and amounted to 13.01 million travelers. Travel traffic from euro area countries increased by 11.5%, as well as that from the EU-27 countries outside the euro zone, which increased by 24.4%. Particularly, travel traffic from Germany increased by 9.5% and amounted to 4.7 million travelers, while that from France increased by 4.2% and amounted to 1.831 million travelers. Regarding countries outside the EU 27, travel traffic from the United Kingdom increased by 2.4% to 4.5 million travelers, as well as that from the USA, which increased by 29.2% to 1.4 million travelers. Finally, travel traffic from Russia decreased by 1.0% and amounted to 35.7 thousand travelers.