{"id":409788,"date":"2026-04-21T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/409788\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:55:10","slug":"tourism-receipts-rose-70-in-january-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/409788\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism receipts rose 70% in January-February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tourists_Caryatids_INtime.jpg\" alt=\"Tourism receipts rose 70% in January-February\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tourists_Caryatids_INtime.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[InTime News]<\/p>\n<p>Travel receipts exceeded \u20ac1 billion in the first two months of the year, much higher than the \u20ac589 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>This impressive increase, which translates into 70.7%, according to official data from the Bank of Greece, reflects a strong momentum that characterized the start of 2026, with foreign arrivals increasing by 38.5%.<\/p>\n<p>This trend comes in addition to the increasing indications of an extension of the tourism season.<\/p>\n<p>However, that momentum was interrupted after the outbreak of the war in the Gulf at the end of February, creating concerns in the market and a revision of short-term estimates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[InTime News] Travel receipts exceeded \u20ac1 billion in the first two months of the year, much higher than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60,6306],"class_list":{"0":"post-409788","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\/409788","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=409788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}