{"id":15549,"date":"2025-07-22T13:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15549\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T13:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:58:08","slug":"travel-receipts-soared-12-7-in-january-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15549\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel receipts soared 12.7% in January-May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/15ed36b7704629e05b2b3875930533ea_merakos_02_paros-naousa_1743x752-1.jpg\" alt=\"Travel receipts soared 12.7% in January-May\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/15ed36b7704629e05b2b3875930533ea_merakos_02_paros-naousa_1743x752-1-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Travel receipts showed a significant increase in May and the first five months of this year.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, according to data from the Bank of Greece, in May, which is also the precursor month of the summer season, travel receipts increased by 17.7% on an annual basis to 2.248 billion euros, while arrivals decreased by 2.7%.<\/p>\n<p>In the period January-May 2025, the relevant receipts increased by 12.7% to \u20ac4.352 billion, and arrivals by 2.1%.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from the BoG, in May, the current account balance showed a small surplus compared to May 2024 \u2013 recording an improvement of \u20ac2.5 billion \u2013 and amounted to \u20ac196.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The goods balance deficit narrowed, as imports declined and exports increased marginally. At current prices, exports increased by 0.3% (7.8% at constant prices) and imports decreased by 14.3% (-12.3% at constant prices).<\/p>\n<p>At current prices, exports of goods excluding fuel increased by 11.0% (14.7% at constant prices), while imports of goods excluding fuel increased by 7.1% (6.5% at constant prices).<\/p>\n<p>The surplus in the services balance increased due to the improvement in all individual balances, mainly the travel balance and, to a lesser extent, the balances of other services and transport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travel receipts showed a significant increase in May and the first five months of this year. In particular,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,1674],"class_list":["post-15549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}