[InTime News]
The 8.9% annual increase in travel receipts reported by the Bank of Greece for January-October stems not only from the 4.4% increase in incoming tourism traffic, but also from the 3.9% growth in expenditure per trip year-on-year. In the first 10 months of the year.
Greece received 35.261 million visitors from abroad, against 33.788 million in the same period last year.
Arrivals from Germany increased 8.3%, from Italy 8.2%, from the UK 6.6% and from the US 2%, while France showed a 2% reduction.
Travel receipts grew by €1.83 billion to reach €22.38 billion, while spending per trip averaged at €602.20.