{"id":86667,"date":"2025-08-23T04:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/86667\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T04:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:54:14","slug":"travel-posts-e6-billion-h1-surplus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/86667\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel posts \u20ac6 billion H1 surplus"},"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\/08\/airport-1.png\" alt=\"Travel posts \u20ac6 billion H1 surplus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/airport-1.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Greek travel services sector saw a surplus of \u20ac6 billion in the first half of 2025, a 9.1% increase from the previous year, data from the Bank of Greece showed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>From January to June, travel receipts rose 11% from the same period last year to \u20ac7.6 billion, driven by a 24% increase in travel payments and a 10.1% rise in average expenditure per overnight stay.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism accounts for more than a quarter of Greece\u2019s economic output.<\/p>\n<p>In that period, receipts from residents of the 27-country European Union grew by 8.5% to \u20ac4.1 billion, and receipts from other countries grew 13.7% to \u20ac3.2 billion, with receipts from eurozone members Germany, France and Italy being the leading contributors to the growth.<\/p>\n<p>Receipts from the United States were up 29.4% to \u20ac704.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>[Reuters]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Greek travel services sector saw a surplus of \u20ac6 billion in the first half of 2025, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,7723,1219,387,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-86667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-statistics","tag-tourism","tag-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86667","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=86667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}