Tourism sets new records in arrivals and revenue – October off to a strong start

Greece’s tourism assemblage continues to interruption records, with caller information pointing to a beardown show that extends good into the autumn months. October is expected to outperform past year, reinforcing the inclination of lengthening the tourer play beyond the accepted summertime peak. Meanwhile, authoritative figures from the Bank of Greece corroborate record-high revenues, driven by stronger visitant spending.

July’s historical high – traditionally 1 of the astir captious months alongside August – surpassed expectations, contempt earlier concerns from section tourism bodies astir underperformance. Travel receipts reached €4.5 cardinal successful July 2025, up from the erstwhile grounds of €3.93 cardinal successful July 2024. This surge pushed full receipts for January–July 2025 to €12.2 billion, compared with €10.83 cardinal successful the aforesaid play past year. Notably, portion arrivals accrued by conscionable 2.6% successful the archetypal 7 months, revenues jumped 12.5%, highlighting a emergence successful mean visitant spending.

October capableness climbs supra 3 cardinal seats
For the archetypal time, airlines person scheduled much than 3.06 cardinal seats connected inbound flights for October 2025 – a 5.3% year-on-year increase, exceeding maturation rates seen during highest summertime months. This marks a large milestone successful efforts to cement October arsenic portion of the extended season, with request spilling beyond the summer.

Athens accounts for implicit a 3rd of these seats (1.15 million, +4.7%), portion Heraklion shows a beardown +9.4% emergence to 482,000 seats. Rhodes follows with 333,000 (slightly down -1.3%), portion Thessaloniki (+12.8%, 267,000 seats) and Corfu (+13.9%, 238,000 seats) implicit the apical 5 destinations.

Key markets stay Germany (676,000 seats, +3.4%) and the UK (584,000, somewhat down), portion Israel stands retired with a crisp +31% surge to 191,000 seats, surpassing adjacent Italy and France.

Air postulation overall besides reflects this momentum: January–August 2025 saw rider volumes emergence 4.6% year-on-year, reaching 57.5 cardinal crossed Greece’s 39 commercialized airports.

Industry leaders, including Aegean Airlines and Athens International Airport, corroborate that request remains resilient contempt geopolitical uncertainties and unit connected European household budgets. Aegean has already accrued wintertime capableness by 9% compared with past year, further supporting the inclination of play extension.