{"id":114116,"date":"2025-09-02T21:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/114116\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T21:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:47:08","slug":"spending-per-visitor-grows-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/114116\/","title":{"rendered":"Spending per visitor grows, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Tourists_Monastiraki.jpg\" alt=\"Spending per visitor grows, study finds\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Tourists_Monastiraki.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The tourist season is not only getting lengthier, but average spending per trip is also going up, according to a study by Alpha Bank, on the basis of first half data.<\/p>\n<p>The study notes the challenges faced by Greek tourism, with the most important being the green transition, digital transformation and a further strengthening of the sector\u2019s sustainability to support a longer season.<\/p>\n<p>It estimates that out of the \u20ac1 billion invested by hotels in 2024, about a fifth went to sustainability projects, also showing a need for smaller businesses to be informed of their benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Another major challenge is finding the personnel: the study estimates that 20% of available jobs went unfilled.<\/p>\n<p>While arrivals in the first half were only marginally higher than the record one in the same period of 2024, revenue was up 11%, the study noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tourist season is not only getting lengthier, but average spending per trip is also going up, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164,6771],"class_list":["post-114116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}