Tourism revenue showed an increase of 70.4% in the ten months from January to October compared to the corresponding period in 2021 and amounted to 17.114 billion euros. Bank of Greece (Bank of Greece).

Compared to the period January-October 2019, in the corresponding period of 2022, travel receipts showed a decrease of 2.6%, while inbound passenger traffic increased by 11%, and average travel expenses increased by 10.1%.

Such a development of events, according to the Central Bank, is due to an increase in fees from residents of the EU-27 countries by 49.0%, which amounted to 9.82 billion euros, as well as fees from residents of countries outside the EU-27 by 110.5%, which amounted to 6.927 billion euros.

In more detail, receipts from residents of the euro area amounted to 7.830 billion euros, an increase of 46.0%, while receipts from residents of the EU-27 non-euro area amounted to 1.995 billion euros, showing an increase of 61.9%.

In particular, receipts from Germany increased by 37.9% and amounted to 3,117.8 million euros, and from France – by 29.1% and amounted to 1,256.6 million euros. From countries outside the EU-27, receipts from the United Kingdom showed an increase of 122.7%, amounting to 3,128.3 million euros. Receipts from the US also rose by 86.4% to €1,057.3 million, while receipts from Russia decreased by 65.0% to €34.5 million.

The increase in receipts reflects a 92% increase in tourist arrivals, bringing the number of tourists visiting our country during this period to over 26.4 million compared to 13.7 million in the corresponding period of 2021. The EU-27 accounted for 16.3 million travelers, an increase of 68.9% compared to the corresponding period in 2021, while the tourist flow from non-EU-27 countries increased by 147.0% and amounted to 10.1 million travelers. Tourist flow from the euro area countries increased by 59.3%, and from the EU-27 countries outside the euro area – by 94.2%.

In particular, the tourist flow from Germany increased by 47.1% and amounted to 4.2 million travelers, as well as from France by 49.9% and amounted to 1,711.0 million travelers. Relative to countries outside the EU-27, the flow of tourists from the United Kingdom increased by 194.4% to 4.3 million travelers, and from the USA – by 167.5% to 975.7 thousand travelers. As a result, the flow of tourists from Russia decreased by 63.3% and amounted to 34.6 thousand travelers.