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Athens and Santorini Most Popular Greek Tourist Destinations

Predictions made by leading tour operators concerning this year's tourist arrivals in Greece are coming true. This summer Greece is expected to welcome about 20 million tourists. Approximately 187,000 more tourists visited Greece via airplane this May compared to...

Samaras Requests a Drop in Prices on Greek Islands

After the publication of many articles and surveys concerning an alarming increase in prices on Greek islands and other popular tourist destinations, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, decided to personally intervene, via a phone call. According to Greek news, the Greek...

Samaras Sees Another Record Tourism Season

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, speaking to the 22nd open general assembly of the Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) said it is the driving engine for revenues and predicted a second straight record season. Outlining the government's plans for boosting tourism, he stressed...

Increased Arrivals at Greek Airports in 2014

According to data from Greece's Civil Aviation Authority, arrivals at Greek airports from abroad increased by 16.9 % during the first two months of the year to 602,222, from 515,379 in the same period in 2013, with arrivals at Greek...

Bloomberg Predicts Record Tourist Arrivals in Greece for 2014

A recent article in Bloomberg predicted that in 2014, a record of tourist arrivals is expected in Greece, with revenues reaching 13 billion euros. According to Andreas Andreadis, president of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE), "forecasts show that...

Greek Tourism Broke Revenue Record

In the first eight months of 2013, Greek tourism finally broke the 2008 record of 8.67 billion from tourism revenues the 8.68 billion euro mark. Given that the total revenues for all of 2008 had amounted to 11.6 billion, the...

Greek Tourism Breaks Another Record

After the very good course of the Greek tourism in the period January to September, there were  ─in comparison with last year─ around 1 million more tourists who visited Greece by air. According to data released by the Association of...

Kalamata, Santorini, Heraklion Champions in Tourist Arrivals

The arrivals of foreign tourists at the airports around Greece recorded an important increase, according to the first (temporary) data for September 2013 that were published by the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE). According to the data for the...

Tourists Keep Pouring Into Greece

What a difference a year makes. In 2012, Greek tourism took a big hit in the aftermath of images of protests, strikes and riots against austerity measures. This year, with Greeks largely surrendering, it's been relatively calm and visitors...

Tourist Arrivals in Greece Take Off

Greece's busiest-ever tourist season continues to get better with news that there was a 9.28 percent rise in air arrivals, mirroring that of arrivals via ship. Some 6,887,532 people have flown into Greece so far this season with the...