German visitors boost tourism takings

The ample summation successful the fig of German travelers and the wide summation successful the mean per capita expenditure of inbound tourism successful Greece led to grounds revenues successful July and the full archetypal 7 months of the year, authoritative information show.

The mean expenditure per trip successful July accrued by 7.2% to 631.7 euros and successful the 7 months by 9.1% to €626.

According to the provisional information of the Bank of Greece for the travel equilibrium successful the year to end-July, 18.454 cardinal overseas residents visited Greece, bringing travel receipts for the 7 months to €12.182 billion. The accrued revenues came contempt the marginal summation successful arrivals successful the 7 months, by 2.6%.

A notable constituent from the Bank of Greece information is that of travel payments by Greeks abroad. They look to person spent €344 cardinal connected trips extracurricular Greece successful July compared to €273 cardinal successful the aforesaid period successful 2024 (+26%). As for the total expenditure of Greeks connected their trips overseas betwixt January and July, this amounted to €2.01 billion, up from €1.617 cardinal successful the aforesaid play successful 2024 and €1.361 cardinal successful 2023 (+47.6%). This, according to marketplace sources, shows that an expanding percent of Greeks are choosing overseas destinations for their holidays.

Returning to inbound tourism, successful implicit terms, German travelers spent the astir wealth successful Greece some successful July and successful the full 7 months, parting with €664.4 cardinal (up 23.6%) and €2.03 cardinal (up 16.6%) respectively.

The British are 2nd successful some spending and arrivals, but some figures decreased compared to past year. Travel receipts from the UK successful July amounted to €549.9 million, down 18.2% year-on-year, and for the play from January to July, €1.631 cardinal from €1.68 cardinal (-2.9%).

For the aforesaid period, arrivals from Germany amounted to 2.812 cardinal (+8%) and from Britain to 2.299 cardinal (+1.5%).

The different large marketplace from which Greece attracts visitors, the US, continued to turn astatine a brisk pace. In July alone, 209,700 Americans came to Greece, taking their seven-month total to 903,900. Although their numbers successful July are astatine akin levels to past year, they spent 15.1% much money, bringing total receipts from the US successful the 7 months to €954 million, up 25.3% connected past year.