{"id":408639,"date":"2026-04-20T18:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408639\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:15:18","slug":"travel-receipts-surge-but-data-is-incomplete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408639\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel receipts surge but data is incomplete"},"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\/08\/b9cf3cdffac25e546d4a342aff09443a_acropolis1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Travel receipts surge but data is incomplete\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b9cf3cdffac25e546d4a342aff09443a_acropolis1-1-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[File photo]<\/p>\n<p>Greece recorded a more than 80% year-on-year rise in travel receipts in February, leading to a slight \u200cimprovement in the nation\u2019s finances but on the basis of incomplete data, the central bank has said.<\/p>\n<p>The national statistics authority postponed trade figures, citing quality issues without giving further \u2060explanation, meaning the Bank of Greece could not release data for the balance of goods and therefore the overall current account balance.<\/p>\n<p>The Bank of Greece said travel receipts jumped 83.2% from a year earlier to \u20ac533.4 million, driven by a 44.5% increase in non-resident arrivals.<\/p>\n<p>A narrower \u200ctransport \u2060surplus and a deterioration in other services, however, almost wiped out the gains.<\/p>\n<p>The primary income account deficit nearly doubled from a year earlier, largely due to \u2060lower net receipts from other primary income, while the secondary income account deficit widened on higher net government \u2060payments.<\/p>\n<p>As travel receipts underpinned the economy for the first two months of the year, arrivals rose \u2060by 38.5% and related revenues jumped by 70.7% from the same period in 2025. [Reuters]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[File photo] Greece recorded a more than 80% year-on-year rise in travel receipts in February, leading to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60,6306],"class_list":{"0":"post-408639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-tourism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}