{"id":313976,"date":"2025-12-13T14:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T14:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313976\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T14:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T14:14:09","slug":"stournaras-tourism-still-has-growth-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313976\/","title":{"rendered":"Stournaras: Tourism still has growth potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stournaras_Reuters.png\" alt=\"Stournaras: Tourism still has growth potential\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stournaras_Reuters.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>File photos.<\/p>\n<p>Greece\u2019s tourism product presents \u201csignificant opportunities for growth, especially in light of international trends that favor high-spending tourism and destinations with a strong identity,\u201d Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Greece\u2019s central banker was addressing an event celebrating Grecotel\u2019s 50-year anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on recent report data, he said that \u201cif a targeted strategy is followed, a 15% increase in average expenditure per visitor is possible up to 2035, as is the reduction in overconcentration of arrivals in July and August from 42% to 34%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that high-spending tourism would come from markets like the US and Asia. \u201cA qualitative product upgrade could provide new impetus to infrastructure and investments,\u201d as well, Stournaras said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File photos. Greece\u2019s tourism product presents \u201csignificant opportunities for growth, especially in light of international trends that favor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,1219,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-313976","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-tourism","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}